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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. COLLECTION OF WORKS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RUDYARD KIPLING AND HERMAN MELVILLE: Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Cassell & Company, 1883, FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE (deadman's chest without capitals; worse for worst; the period is dropped from line 20 of p.178; advertisement's dated 5R-1283), half-title, chart frontispiece printed in four colours, original sage-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 8pp. of publisher's catalogue (final leaves uncut), black-coated endpapers, collector's green cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, the H. Bradley Martin copy (sale bookmark loosely inserted, his sale, Sotheby's, New York 1989-1990, Lot 2478), worn, hinges starting with some splitting at endpapers, some spotting, boards soiled, rubbed, [Prideaux 11]; A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. Cassell, 1892, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in Gosse's hand on front free endpaper ("Edmund Gosse | from the Author | 1892") on front free endpaper, map frontispiece, 16pp. of publisher's catalogue (uncut), original dark green cloth, modern collector's green dust-jacket with cloth gilt spine labels, some gatherings starting, internal browning, a few very small scratch marks to boards Kipling, Rudyard. Poems 1886--1929. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930, 3 volumes, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, NO.459 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (out of a total edition of 537), volumes 2 and 3 unsigned as normal, facsimile poem frontispiece in volume 1 with tissue-guard, original full Japanese vellum, Ganesha device in gilt on upper cover, red stripes and corners, red labels on spines lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKETS, a few short tears to jackets, [Richards A396]; Soldiers Three, a collection of Stories. Allahabad: the "Pioneer" Press, 1888, FIRST EDITION, one of 1,500 copies, rebound in contemporary calf, original wrappers bound in, preserved in chemise and slipcase, original upper wrapper detached, upper board detached; Wee Willie Winkie and other Child Stories. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888], first Indian edition, original wrappers; The Story of the Gadsbys. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888], first Indian edition, original wrappers, preserved in chemise and quarter morocco slipcase, covers torn and chipped; The Story of the Gadsbys. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1890], first English edition, original paper covers, covers slightly torn; The City of Dreadful Night and other places. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [1891], first English edition, original wrappers, wrappers slightly torn; The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales. Allahabad: A.W. Wheeler, [1889], first Indian edition, original wrappers, preserved in chemise and quarter red morocco pull-off box; Phantom Rickshaw & other Tales. Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and (London:) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890, first English edition, original wrappers; Plain Tales from the Hills. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. and (London:) W. Thacker and co., 1888, first edition, second issue, original pictorial cloth; Plain Tales from the Hills. Macmillan, 1890, third edition, the American author William Clyde Fitch's copy with his bookplate and ownership inscription, original blue cloth; Stalky & Co. Macmillan, 1899, reprint, rebound in full crushed morocco, pictorial morocco doublure, slipcase; In Sight of Mount Monadnock, privately printed, 1894 [1918], original wrappers, slightly stained; Sea and Sussex...illustrated by Donald Maxwell Macmillan, 1926, ONE OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, SIGNED BY KIPLING, original quarter vellum, light blue boards; 'They'. Macmillan, 1905, original white buckram; with eight other works by Kipling (titles including Wee Willie Winkie, A Song of the English, A Diversity of Creatures, Debits and Credits, Limits and Renewals, A Book of Words, and Letters of Travel, various editions, most in dust-jackets) and