1866-1870
The Pentland Rising (1866 Elliot)
- wraps
[Anonymous pamphlet]
The Charity Bazaar (1868 PP)
- signed in wraps & unsigned in wraps
1871-1880
A New Form of Intermittant Light for Lighthouses (1871)
On the Thermal Influence of Forests (1873)
An Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland (1875)
An Inland Voyage (1878 C Kegan Paul)
- frontis by Walter Crane
(1881 C Kegan Paul. 2nd Ed)
(1883 US)
[An account of a canoe trip Stevenson made on the canals of Northern France in 1876]
Edinburgh : Picturesque Notes (1879 Seeley & Co)
[First published in The Portfolio June-Dec 1878]
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879 Kegan Paul)
(1879 Roberts Bros, Boston)
- frontis Walter Crane
(1881 Kegan Paul. 2nd Ed)
Deacon Brodie (1880)
[Stevenson's first play written with W E Henley]
1881-1884
Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers (1881 Kegan Paul)
[Appeared previously in The Cornhill Magazine, London & Macmillan's Magazine]
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882 Chatto & Windus)
(1887 Dodd Mead)
The New Arabian Nights (1882 Chatto & Windus)
- 2 vols. ss
[These were previously published in the periodicals : London, Cornhill Magazine & Temple Bar]
Treasure Island (1883 Cassell)
The Silverado Squatters (1883 Chatto & Windus)
[Originally published in The Century Magazine Vol 27, Nov & Dec 1883]
"The Body Snatcher" : A Story (appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette 1884)
[Filmed in 1945]
1885
"The Misadventures of John Nicholson" : A Story (appeared in Cassell's Christmas Annual 1885)
More New Arabian Nights : The Dynamiter (1885 Longmans, Green & Co)
(1888 Scribner)
- ss
- with Mrs Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885 Longmans, Green & Co)
(1885 Scribner)
- with Mrs Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
Prince Otto : A Romance (1885 Chatto & Windus)
- 1000 printed
[First published in Longman's Magazine April to October 1885]
(1886 Roberts Bros, Boston)
1886-1887
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886 Scribner)
(1886 Longmans, Green & Co)
[Filmed in 1921, 1931, 1941 & in 1995 as "Doctor Jekyll and Ms. Hyde"
and in 1960 as "The Two faces of Dr Jekyll"]
Kidnapped : Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
(1886 PP for the Author by James Henderson)
- only a few copies
(1886 Cassell)
- Offered for £280 in 1998
[First serialised in "Young Folks" in 1886]
[Filmed in 1959 & 1971]
(1886 Scribner)
The Merry Men & other Tales and Fables (1887 Chatto & Windus)
[This contained stories previously published in periodicals :
The Treasure of Franchard (Longman's Magazine April to May 1885)
Olalla (The Court & Society Review Christmas 1885)
The Broken Shaft (Unwin's Annual, Christmas 1885)
And three other's that appeared in The Cornhill Magazine]
Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer (1887)
Ticonderoga (1887 ptd for Author by Clark,
Edinburgh)
- 50
Underwoods (1887 C & W)
(1887 Scribner)
Memories and Portraits (1887 C & W)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887 Scribners, NY)
1888-1890
The Misadventures of John Nicholson (1888 M J Ivers, NY in their American Series)
The Black Arrow : A Tale of Two Roses (1888 Scribner)
(1888 Cassell)
[First serialised in Young Folks from June 30th to October 20th 1883, by Capt George North]
English First Edition offered for £410 in 1999
[Filmed in 1948]
The Master of Ballantrae : A Winter's Tale (1889 Cassell)
[First serialised in Scribner's Magazine in 1888-9]
[Filmed in 1953]
The Wrong Box (1889 Scribner NY)
(1889 Longmans, Green & Co)
- with Lloyd Osbourne [Stevenson's stepson]
[Filmed in 1966]
Ballads (1890 Scribner NY)
(1890 Chatto & Windus)
- 100 Large Paper
The South Seas (1890)
[Only 22 copies, of which supposedly only 7 went into circulation, the remaining 15 being
cut up to be distributed to newspapers ! Stevenson decided not to published the book.]
Father Damien : An Open Letter to the Rev Dr Hyde of Honolulu (1890 PP)
(1890 Chatto & Windus)
1891-1893
The Wrecker (1892 Scribner)
(1892 Cassell)
- with Lloyd Osbourne
A Footnote to History : Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892 Cassell)
Three Plays : Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, Admiral Guinea
(1892 David Nutt)
- 1000 + 130 special copies
An Object of Pity, or The Man Haggard : A Romance. By Many Competent Hands
(1892 PP, Amsterdam)
[The authors were Leigh, Lady J, Fanny, RLS, Bell & Graham.
Edmund Gosse thought 35 copies were printed]
Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892 C & W)
Offered in 1999 for £260
(1892 Scribner)
Catriona, a Sequel to Kidnapped (1893 Cassell)
War in Samoa (1893)
Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers (1893 Scribner)
- 212 numbered
Island Nights' Entertainments (1893 US)
(1893 Cassell)
- Gordon Browne & W Hatherell
1894-1895
The Collected Works of R L Stevenson : The Edinburgh Edition, Edited by Sidney Colvin (1894-1898)
The Ebb-Tide : A Trio and Quartette (1894 Stone & Kimball)
(1894 Heinemann)
["Ebb Tide" filmed in 1937]
- with Lloyd Osbourne
Vailima Letters : Being Correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin
(1895 Methuen)
(1895 Stone & Kimball, Chicago - 2 vols)
The Amateur Emigrant (1895 Stone & Kimball, Chicago)
Macaire : A Melodramatic Farce (1895 Stone & Kimball, Chicago)
- with W E Henley
The Body Snatcher (1895)
(1895 Merriam Co, NY)
American first in slipcase offered in 1999 for £1180
1896-1900
A Mountain Town in France (1896)
Fables (1896 Scribner)
In the South Seas (1896 PP)
(1900 Chatto & Windus)
Weir of Hermiston : An Unfinished Romance (1896 C & W)
St Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897 Scribner)
(1898 Heinemann)
[First 30 chapters by Stevenson - completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch]
[Filmed in 1949 as "The Secret of St Ives"]
The Suicide Club, and the Rajah's Diamond (1897 C & W)
- W J Hennessy
A Lowden Sabbath Morn (1898 Chatto & Windus)
- A S Boyd
Some College Memories (1899 Mansfield & Wessels, NY)
A Stevenson Medley (1899 C & W)
- 300 signed by publisher
The Letters to His Family & Friends (1900 Methuen)
- 2 vols. Edited by Sidney Colvin
1901-1920
Three Short Poems (1902 PP, Chicago)
- 50 on Japan vellum
Essays of Travel (1905 C & W)
Prayers Written at Vailima (1905 C & W)
- intro by Mrs Stevenson
Essays in the Art of Writing (1905 C & W)
The Collected Works of R L Stevenson : The Pentland Edition, with Biographical
Notes by Edmund Gosse (1906-1907)
An Inland Voyage (1908 Chatto & Windus)
- 250. Noel Rooke
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1908 Chatto & Windus)
- 100. Noel Rooke
Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers (1910 Chatto & Windus for The Florence Press)
- 250. Norman Wilkinson
The Letters (1911 NY. New Ed)
- 4 vols. edited by Sidney Colvin
Lay Morals and Other Papers (1911 C & W)
The Collected Works of R L Stevenson : The Swanston Edition, with Intro by Andrew Lang (1911-12)
Records of a Family of Engineers (1912 C & W)
Kidnapped (1913 Scribner, NY)
(1913 Cassell)
- N C Wyeth
The Pavilion on the Links (1913 C & W)
- Gordon Browne
Poems (1913 Florence Press)
The Hanging Judge : A Drama in 3 Acts (1914 T J Wise for PP circulation)
- with Fanny van de Grift Stevenson
The Black Arrow (1916 Scribner)
- N C Wyeth
The Works (1919 Scribner, NY)
- 25 vols
Diogenes in London (1920 Grabhorn Press, SF)
- 150
1921-1925
Collected Works : Vailima Edition (1921 Scribner NY)
(1922-3 Heinemann)
- 26 vols. 1060
[Edited by Lloyd Osbourne]
Confessions of a Unionist (1921 PP in Cambridge, Mass)
Moral Emblems & Other Poems : First printed at the Davos Press by Lloyd Osbourne
(1921 Chatto & Windus)
- Woodcuts by R L Stevenson
Diogenes at the Sevile Club (1921 Frank M Morris, Grabhorn Press, Chicago)
- 150
Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings (Edited by Henry H Harper)
(1921 Bibliophile Society, Boston)
- Ltd ed
The Bandbox : Facsimile of Original MS (1921 PP Cambridge, Mass)
When the Devil was Well : A hitherto Unpublished Story (1921 Bibliophile Soc, Boston)
- 450
Stevenson's Baby Book : The Record of the Sayings & Doings of Robert Louis Stevenson
(1922 John Howell, SF)
- 500
A Lodging for the Night (1923 Grolier Club, NY)
- 300 by C P Rollins
Collected Works : Tusitalia Edition of the Works (1923-4 Heinemann)
- 37 vols. edited by Sidney Colvin
Collected Works : The Skerryvore Edition (1924 Heinemann)
- 30 vols
David Balfour (1924 Scribner, NY)
- N C Wyeth
Robert Louis Stevenson to His Good Friend M Donat (1925 PP for Herbert Lionel Rothchild, SF)
- 50
1926-1930
Prayers Written at Vailima (1928 Chatto & Windus)
- A Sangorski
Ten Fables (1928 Swan Press)
- 240. Rachel Russell
Kidnapped (1930 London)
- owland Hilder
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1929 Random House, NY)
- 1200 signed by W A Dwiggins
Kidnapped (1930 London)
- Rowland Hilder
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1930 Bodley Head)
- S G Hulme Beaman
Two Medieval Tales (1930 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- C B Falls
After 1931
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1931 JL, The Bodley Head)
- Edmund Blampied
Kidnapped (1938 OUP)
- Rowland Hilder
Kidnapped (1938 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Hans Alexander Mueller
Across the Plains (1950 Allen Press, Hillsborough, California)
- 200. Mallette Dean
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1952 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
The Beach of Falesa (1956 Ltd Eds Club, LA)
- 1500 signed by Millard Sheets
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1957 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Roger Duvoisin
The Master of Ballantrae (1965 Ltd Eds Club)
- 1500 signed by Lynd Ward
Home from the Sea : Poems for Young Readers (1970 Bodley Head)
- Edward Ardizzone
(Ed Janet Adam Smith)
Robert Louis Stevenson : Collected Poems (1971 revised edition)
The New Arabian Nights (1976 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Clarke Hutton
The Wrong Box : The Authentic Text (1989 Nonesuch Press £36)
- Edited by Ernest Mayhew
(Ed)
June Skinner Sawyers : Dreams of Elsewhere - The Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
(2002 The In Pinn, Glasgow £15)
The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (2003
Edinburgh UP £24.99)
EDITIONS OF TREASURE ISLAND
[First published in a boys' periodical called "Young Folks" on October 1st, 1881, and ran
through until January 28th, 1882
It was by Captain George North.
Stevenson had entitled it "The Sea Cook" but, Henderson, owner of Young Folks changed
it to the better known title]
1883-1900
1883 First Edition - First Issue (1883 Cassell)
- 2000
Offered for £2815 in 1998
1883 First edition - Later Issues (1883 Cassell)
1884 Second Edition
Up to 1900 Later Issues (Cassell)
1884 First US & First Illustrated Edition (Roberts Brothers, US)
- F T Merrill
1885 First UK Illustrated Edition (Cassell)
- various artists
1899 (Cassell)
- Wal Paget
1901-1930
1911 (Scribner NY)
- N C Wyeth]
1911 (Cassell)
- Walter Page
1911 (Cassell)
- John Cameron. 250
1925 (Harper US & UK)
- Louis Rhead
1927 (Benn)
- Edmund Dulac
1927 (Benn)
- Edmund Dulac - Edition de luxe. Ltd Ed 50
1928 (Macmillan)
- H M Brock
1929 (OUP)
- Rowland Hilder
1930 (Anderson Books, Phila)
- Lyle Justis
1931 Onwards
1934 (Muller)
- Monro S Orr
1941 Ltd Eds Club, NY - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
1947 (Paul Elek, Camden Classics)
- John Minton
1948 (Dent's Illustrated Classics)
- S Van Abbe
1949 (Eyre & Spottiswoode)
- Mervyn Peake
1949 (Pitman)
- Peter Jackson
1950 Walt Disney (1950 Collins)
- stills from the film
(1950 D C Thomson)
- Dudley Watkins
1951 (Blackie)
- Jack Matthew
1963 (
Folio Society)
- Peter Roberson
1963 (Nonesuch Press)
- Robert Micklewright
1985 (London)
- Ralph Steadman
The Return of Long John Silver by John Connell being a sequel to Treasure Island
(1949 Longmans, Green)
- Ley Kenyon
[Filmed in 1934, 1950, 1971, 1990 & 1991]
EDITIONS OF A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
1885-1900
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885 Longmans, Green & Co)
- with Mrs Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
(1885 Scribner, NY)
(1896 JL, Bodley Head)
(1913 Bodley Head)
- Charles Robinson
Song Flowers : From a Child's Garden of Verses (c1897 Gardner, Darton Co)
- music by Katharine M Ramsay. Gordon Browne
1901-1940
(1905 Longman Green)
- Jessie Willcox Smith
(1908 John Lane, Bodley Head)
- Charles Robinson
(1908 Chatto & Windus)
- Millicent Sowerby
Songs with Music from a Child's Garden of Verses (1915 Jack)
- Margaret Tarrant
(1917 Scribner, NY / Longmans, London)
- Jessie Wilcox Smith
(1919 Lippincott)
- Maria L Kirk
(1919 McNally)
- Ruth Mary Hallock
(1925 Collins)
- Kate Oliver
(1926 David McKay, Phila)
- H Willebeek Le Mair
(1929 Platt & Munk, NY)
- Eulalie
(1930 Saalfield)
- Clara M Burd
(1931 Harrap)
- H Willebeek Le Mair
(1932 Grosset & Dunlap, NY)
- Juanita C Bennett
(1940 Saalfield)
- Fern Bisel Peat
After 1941
(1942 Doubleday)
- Pelagie Doane
The Jolly Jump Ups - A Child's Garden fo Verses (1946 McLoughlin)
- Geraldine Clyne
(1947 OUP, NY)
(1947 Walck)
- Tasha Tudor
(1947 Hopetoun Press,
Edinburgh)
- Joan Hassall
(1951 Golden Press)
- A & M Provensen
(1966 OUP)
- Brian Wildsmith
(1985 Gollancz £6.95)
- Michael Foreman
READING
1893-1905
Alice Brown : RLS - A Study (1893 Boston)
Graham Balfour : The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1901 Methuen)
- 2 vols
H B Baildon : RLS (1901)
George M Williamson : Catalogue of a Collection of the Books of R L Stevenson in the
Library of George M Williamson (1901 Marion Press NY)
- 150
[Williamson's private library contained the largest collection of books by
Stevenson known to exist, including all the rarities]
W F Prideaux : A Bibliography of the Works of R L Stevenson (1903)
Isabel Strong : Memories of Vailima (1903 Constable)
- with Lloyd Osbourne
1906-1920
Katharine D Osbourne : Robert Louis Stevenson in California (1911 McClurg, Chicago)
Elbert Hubbard : Robert Louis Stevenson (1911 The Roycrofters, NY)
David N Mackay : The Appin Murder - The Historical Basis of Kidnapped and Catriona (1911
Edinburgh)
First Editions of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1914 Grolier Club)
W F Prideaux : A Bibliography of the Works of R L Stevenson (1917 Frank Hollings, London)
[Revised Ed by F V Livingstone]
George Brown : A Book of Robert Louis Stevenson (1919)
Lord Guthrie : Robert Louis Stevenson - Some Personal Recollections
(1920 W Green,
Edinburgh)
- 500
J C B Bay : Echoes of RLS (1920)
1921-1940
Rosaline Masson : I Can remember Robert Louis Stevenson (1922)
Rosaline Masson : The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1923 Chambers)
Lloyd Osborne : An Intimate Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1924)
David Barrett : A Stevenson Study - Treasure Island (1924)
(Ed)
A St John Adcock : RLS - His Work and His Personality (1924)
J A Steuart : Robert Louis Stevenson, Man & Writer - A Critical Biography
(1924 Sampson Low)
- 2 vols
R A Boodle : R L S and His Sine Qua Non (1926 US)
G K Chesterton : RLS (1927)
Sidney Dark : RLS (1932)
(Ed)
F W C Hersey : Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Kidnapped', Followed by
who Killed the Red Fox ? (1938 Boston)
1941-1960
David Daiches : RLS (1947)
Janet Adam Smith : Henry James & RLS - A Record of a Friendship and Criticism (1948 Hart-Davis)
David Daiches : Stevenson and the Art of Fiction (1951)
George L McKay : Catalogue of a Collection of Writings by and about RLS formed
by Edwin J Beinecke (1951-64 Yale UP)
- 6 vols
Richard Aldington : Portrait of a Rebel - RLS (1957)
George L MacKay : Some Notes on Robert Louis Stevenson, His Finances
and His Agents and Publishers (1958 New Haven)
Elsie Noble Caldwell : Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (1960 Norman, Oklahoma)
After 1961
Robert Kiely : Robert Louis Stevenson & the Fiction of Adventure (1964)
Dennis Butts : R L Stevenson - A Short Biography (1966 Bodley Head)
James D Hart : The Private Press Ventures of Samuel Lloyd Osborne and RLS
(1966 Book Club of California)
- 500
David Daiches : RLS and His World (1973)
Paul Binding : Robert Louis Stevenson (1974 OUP)
James Pope Hennessy : Robert Louis Stevenson (1974)
Jenni Calder : RLS - A Life Study (1980)
Roger G Swearingen : The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson - A Guide (1980)
(Ed)
Jenni Calder : Stevenson and Victorian Scotland (1981)
Frank McLynn : Robert Louis Stevenson - A Biography (1993 Hutchinson £20)
Bryan Bevan : Robert Louis Stevenson - Poet and Teller of Tales (1993 Rubicon Press £14.95)
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson : Vol 1 - 1854-1874
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson : Vol 2 - 1874-1879
Both edited by Bradford A Booth & Ernest Mehew (1994 Yale £29.95 each)
Philip Callow : Louis - A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (2001 Constable £20)
Claire Harman : Robert Louis Stevenson - A Biography (2005 Harper Collins £25)