The master of Ballantrae
By: by Robert Louis Stevenson
Contributors: Prideaux, William Francis, 1840-1914
Edition: Author's edition.
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons]
Published: 1888
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Notes: "Price one shilling"--at head of front wrapper.

This is a 'copyright edition' of the first five chapters of the novel printed a year before the novel's general release for the purposes of securing copyright.

According to Prideaux, only 10 copies of this copyright edition were printed, one of which was destroyed.

Includes a typed sheet which presents extracts of letters by Stevenson regarding The Master of Ballantrae.

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