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Treasure Island, cover of another edition (the Cassell 1883 cover is not yet photographed)
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Treasure Island

Cassell · 1883 · Hardback

'dead man's chest' is printed without capitals

Value coming soonSold £2,400, Oct 2025
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chatto & Windus · 1884 · Hardback

32 page catalogue dated October 1884

Value coming soonSold £850, Jul 2025
Flatland first edition cover, Seeley 1884
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Flatland

Seeley · 1884 · Hardback

eight roman-numbered preliminary pages (viii, 100 pp.) with no preface …

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Kidnapped first edition cover, Cassell 1886
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Kidnapped

Cassell · 1886 · Hardback

reads 'business' where later copies have 'pleasure'

Value coming soonSold £600, Oct 2026
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A Study in Scarlet

Ward, Lock & Co. · 1887 · Paperback

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Three Men in a Boat first edition cover, J.W. Arrowsmith 1889
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Three Men in a Boat

J.W. Arrowsmith · 1889 · Hardback

publisher's address reads Quay Street, without the street number 11

Value coming soonSold £160, Aug 2025
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Heidi

Friedrich Andreas Perthes · 1880 · Other

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Kama Sutra

Hindoo Kama Shastra Society · 1883 · Other

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Pinocchio

Felice Paggi · 1883 · Other

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The Brothers Karamazov

Brothers Panteleev · 1881 · Other

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Heracleidae

Univ. Press · 1882 · Hardback

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