Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers; fore and lower edges untrimmed. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges dusty, text block shaken within case (inside paper joints cracked), some bubbling to cloth, small area of discolouration to rear cover. Very good. A rollicking collection of illustrated stories with a tropical island theme, including the classic tale The Bottle Imp. Earliest issue such as this issues feature the hand-corrected price [p.ii]. A source book/inspiration for Ian Fleming when writing his own children's adventure Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964). Item #69868
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [1972]. Prideaux; A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1917). [item 38] p.85-86. Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue [138]. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, p.628.
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