Stevenson (Robert Louis) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, first edition, 1879; and others by the same, many first editions (39)

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Stevenson (Robert Louis) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, bookplate of Eric Quayle, book binder's ticket to rear pastedown, tissue-guard loose, scattered spotting and surface soiling, upper cover gilt, spine dulled, joints starting to split in places, 1879; The Wrecker, plates, advertisements at end, a few spots (worse to endpapers and pastedowns, spine darkened, 1892, first editions, frontispieces, toning, mostly marginal, cracking at hinges, original cloth, spines gilt, rubbed and bumped with a few marks, [Prideaux I 3 & 34]; and others by the same, many first editions, along with a first edition of Joseph Conrad's "Typhoon", 8vo (39) *** Eric Stanley Quayle was a distinguished British bibliophile, collector, and writer whose lifelong passion for books led him to assemble a library of more than 16,000 volumes, including many rare and first editions. Best known for his writings on book collecting, he also authored a respected biography of adventure writer R. M. Ballantyne and retold collections of Cornish and Japanese folk tales.

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