Add this copy of The Wrong Box to cart. $29.99, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Emerald rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Viking Pr.
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Add this copy of The Wrong Box to cart. $30.00, fair condition, Sold by Lavendier Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Foster, RI, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Viking Pr.
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Fair. Size: 8x5x1; The Nonesuch Press; London, 1989. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Limited Edition. Book is limited to 1850 numbered copies. This book is number 940. A Very Good, yellow cloth binding with gilt emblem on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding intact, some handling/rub marks to boards, spine lean, some scattered foxing to text block edges, previous owner name in ink front free endpaper else unmarked, mild waving to pages along fore-edge, in an Acceptable, some handling/rub marks to panels, mild sunning to spine, razor slice and tear along rear panel, price sticker bottom rear panel, Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 226pp., notes, appendix. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
Add this copy of The Wrong Box to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Viking Penguin.
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London. 1989. Nonesuch. Revised Edition of The Authentic Text Published From Stevenson's Manuscript & Corrected Proofs Edited and Introduced By Ernest Mehew. Limited Edition. Book is limited to 1850 numbered copies. This book is number 762. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1871061172. 320 pages. hardcover. The detail of page one of Stevenson 's manuscript is reproduced on the back cover by kind permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Jacket by Michael Harvey. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Wrong Box, the 'black comedy which Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, was first published in 1889. Admirers have included Rudyard Kipling, Max Beerbohm and Graham Greene-in itself sufficient justification for a new centenary edition. In a letter to The Tlimes Literary Supplement in 1970, however, Graham Greene wrote of 'the strange case of The Wrong Box' and asked 'will we ever read The Wrong Box in its true version? ' The history of the novel is indeed complicated, and it is only now that the text appears in a form that does justice to Stevenson's intentions. Through a misunderstanding, the first American edition (from which all subsequent editions derive) was published in June 1889 before the publishers had received from Honolulu the author's corrected proofs. To make matters worse, Stevenson, in the midst of his Pacific voyages and hard-pressed to finish The Master of Ballantrae, had failed to notice a great many misreadings of his handwriting. A corrected edition never appeared, but fortunately the proofs and the original manuscript survive in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, and this edition presents for the first time an authentic text taken from the proofs and checked against the manuscript. It incorporates all the changes made in proof, some of them substantial (and among them a new Chapter XV, for which Stevenson provided five pages of manuscript. It also corrects the many misreadings. ) In his comprehensive introduction the editor gives an account of the book's composition, set against the background of Stevenson's life and interests, and he unravels the story that led to the publication of the imperfect text. He describes in detail many other aspects of the work: the extent of Lloyd Osbourne's contribution, the originals of many of the characters and the conflicting opinions of contemporary reviewers. There is a scholarly textual apparatus, detailed notes and a facsimile of the manuscript's opening page showing one of the novel's working titles, A Game Bluff. This corrected edition, for which Reinhardt Books 'has established a new copyright, represents an important contribution to Stevenson scholarship. It will delight The Wrong Box's many devotees, and it will encourage new readers to discover the joys of a novel described by V.S. Pritchett as 'a brilliant Impertinence'. inventory #14069.
Add this copy of The Wrong Box to cart. $250.01, very good condition, Sold by Housing Works Online Bookstore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Viking Penguin.
