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NY: Fishkill Standard. Good. 1874. 1st ed.. 8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontis piece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fab le. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspap er residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipp ed portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but int act. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing. .

The Swan Press, London. Near fine. 1928. 1st thus.. 1st ed. thus. 8vo, Quarter-bound in tan cloth over printed boards with the swan logo. With twenty one woodcut illustrations by Ra chel Russell. Printed on hand-made paper and limited to 250 copie s; this being no. 193. A near fine copy with light rubbing at cor ners and toning to end papers. Affixed to the inside back cover is one of the scarce ½” square ‘R.L. Stevenson Copyright† lables with a hand-inked price. These were placed in the back of some of Stevenson’s posthumously published works by represen tatives of his estate in order to permit collection of copyright royalties. .