with a plot concerning a virus that kills off grass species
unclipped dust wrapper with heavily foxed and a little darkened panels
lettering to front cover and spine
Very light tanning to spine with light yellowing to extremities and mild bumping to spine tips
Unlike the standard edition which was bound in quarter white parchment with red paper boards patterned in gold
Treasure Island Agatha Christie with a plot concerning aTreasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1894. Reprint, fifty second thousand. Illustrated edition. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 125 x 30 mm.). Pp. viii, 292 pp, plus 20 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Publisher's original decorative blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, patterned endpapers, illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Acceptable copy only, with front free endpaper and plate opposite