Sale 20FL02 | Lot 179

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin.

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Lot 179
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First American edition (preceding the first English edition by 25 years), a presentation copy: "Given under my hand/at Saranac Lake in the year/eighteen hundred and/eighty-eight/Robert Louis Stevenson." Publisher's red cloth, housed in a leather-backed slipcase and chemise. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); viii, 302 pp., [8] pp. ads as issued. Boards a trifle soiled. Bookplates.
Stevenson's biography of Professor Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, the brilliant Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. The book was inscribed by Stevenson during his residence at Saranac Lake, 1887-1888. The recipient is not identified. Prideaux 25.


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Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for $1,187 (includes buyer's premium)

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