1896 Rare Book - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables by Stevenson.
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$160 USD
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Original price
$160 USD
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$160 USD
$160 USD
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$160 USD
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Title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1896. First edition to include the Fables.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 247 pages.
Binding: Good original publisher full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed, gilt on spine faded and sunned - as shown).
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing mainly on the endpapers - as shown).
Estimate: (USD 250 - USD 400)
The book: Rare edition, the first to include the Fables published 10 years after the first edition of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll and Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the vernacular phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" referring to persons with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
The author: Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.