The Wrong Box. by Stevenson, Robert Louis & Lloyd Osbourne - 1889

Mineola, New York: Dover Pubns, 1985. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Mineola, New York, U.S.A. : Dover Pubns 1985 Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover design in browns by Paul Kennedy. Clean and unmarked wraps with slight wear to edges and corners. No creases. Pages completely unmarked, no underlining or highlighting, no creases or tears. "The Wrong Box" is black comedy at its best--a series of absurd pranks add up to a madcap farce that is as hilarious today as it was when Stevenson wrote it in 1889, in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. This edition is an unabridged replication of the edition originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 128 pp. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. 1985, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York.

This is the first edition form the Scribner series "The Biographical Edition of Stevenson's Works".of the work originally published in 1889.The cover of leather over board still has the bright gilded designs on the front and spine despite some wear and chippinge. The pages are in excellent condition with clear, large print; no tears, foxing or marks, etc.

"The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. 1899 1st Edition, 1st Printing; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. NOTE: the torn piece of newspaper at the bottom of the front cover is actually part of the design of the cover.THE WRONG BOXA black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.Condition:Light soiling to covers and spine. Tight binding. No loose pages. Foxing to front and rear pastedowns and end papers...no foxing found on text pages. Crack at hinge at front of book between two end papers. The pages are clean with the exception of a light stain that appears at the bottom-right corner of page 109 to the end of the book. Tear at the outer edge of pages 244 (last page of the novel) and the end paper that follows it. NOTE: the torn piece of newspaper at the bottom of the front cover is actually part of… Read More