Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Balfour

£1,200 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Cassell and Co., 1886. Adventure classic FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.viii; 311, with advertisements to the rear dated 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86. Folding map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles, black endpapers. Internally clean, owners ink-stamped name to first blank, cloth with a few marks to boards, sunned to spine, worn to tips. very good. Stevenson's swashbuckling tale of highland rebellions, basis for the 1971 film

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