The 1912  Biographical Edition of St Ives by R.L.S. with preface by Mrs. Stevenson, by Charles Scribner’s Sons
 
“It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister;.”
 
St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. 
EDITORIAL NOTE
The following tale was taken down from Mr. Stevenson's dictation by his step-daughter and amanuensis, Mrs. Strong, at intervals between January 1893, and October 1894 (see Vailima Letters, Vol. II, pp. 98-104, 179, 217, 230, 253). About six weeks before his death he laid the story aside to take up Weir of Hermiston. The thirty chapters of St. Ives which he had written (the last few of them apparently unrevised) brought the tale within sight of its conclusion, and the intended course of the remainder was known in outline to Mrs.. Strong. For the benefit of those readers who do not like a story to be left unfinished, the delicate task of supplying the missing chapters has been entrusted to Mr. Quiller-Couch, whose work begins at Chapter XXXI.
Leather bound boards w/ stamped gold Arte Nouveau lettering w/ visible tattering along edges and spine and some fading. The pages are in excellent condition, and the spine is tight.
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