The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

by Robert Michael Ballantyne

$2,850 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition. First issue, with the plate “Terrible Encounter with a Shark” facing p. 76 in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece . Octavo 7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm. . viii, 9 -438, 2, blank pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing

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