Buff coloured printed wrappers with dark blue lettering and decorations and red lettering to both the front and back wrappers; date corrected in black ink on the front wrapper. Some closed tears and chipping along the edges of the wrappers, as well as some professional restoration to the spine. A very small chip missing from the bottom corner of the title page. Internally clean. Housed in a custom made red cloth clamshell case backed with red morocco leather and stamped gold gilt lettering.
A very good copy of a fragile and scarce book. The American edition of this novella was published just four days before the UK edition, making it technically the true first edition; The UK edition consisted of only copies in cloth and in wrappers. This is probably one of Stevenson's most well known works and was hugely popular upon its publication. Published by London, Longmans, Green, and Co, From France to United Kingdom. Couverture rigide. Edition originale.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, In de 4 ff. Original salmon cloth, title and publisher s device to front cover in black, blue floral endpapers, slight rubbing to extremities, binding slightly stained.
Housed in a custom brown cloth box. First English edition, case-bound issue, which appeared a week after the wrapper issue. The American edition was published four days before the London edition on 5 January Longmans had intended to publish in December , but delayed publication until January, as they feared the book would be overlooked by readers during the Christmas rush. Hyde, a moral allegory about the divided self and the problem of evil, the main incidents of which came to him in a dream" ODNB.
First Edition, First Issue published by Scribner's, A nice copy bound in the publisher's original cloth. The binding is tight with with light wear to the spine and edges. A lovely copy of this First Edition.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co, London, First British edition. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black; floral endpapers. Very Good or better with toning to spine, cloth lightly soiled, lightly scratched and bubbled. Housed in a custom slipcase, with scuffing to morocco spine. A lovely copy. Used Condition: Very Good. Very Good with soiling, bubbling to cloth, light fraying at corners and spine ends and rubbing at edges.
Small date inked on front paste down, front inner hinge slightly exposed. Pages toned. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very good. First US. A very good copy of the true first edition, first state, measuring cm tall. Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. First British hardcover in publisher's original salmon cloth, stamped in black on cover, floral patterned endpapers, publisher's device to cover and title page. London: Longmans, Green and Co. This VG copy is slightly cocked.
Darkened top edge, toning to endpapers and a spot of soiling on fore edge. Strange Case of Dr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. First edition in original yellow wrappers. Twenty-eighth thousand. Authorized Edition. Publisher: Charles Scribner s Sons, The U. Wrappers in very good condition. Some toning to the wrappers and wear to the spine.
Contents clean and bright. Housed in a custom Library of Congress style box. Inventory Only copies issued in hardback, the rest of the in wraps. A very good copy , sound hinges, a bit of fraying at the base. Within United Kingdom. The conception of the book is famous, coming to Stevenson in a dream. Fanny, Stevenson s wife, woke him believing he was having a nightmare. He said angrily: "Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.
As always, his wife offered criticism in the margins, which included an observation that this was actually an allegory. Stevenson allegedly burnt his original manuscript in response and began re-writing it as an allegory. This work wasn t successful in Britain until the review by The Times on the 25th of January Although Stevenson was originally drawn to the horror of the tale, he became intrigued with how human personalities reflect good and evil.
As such his contemporary demographic was more concerned with art and theology than with fiction. Since the year it was published, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been a staple for the stage, and eventually the screen.
Published by Longmans, Green, And Co. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fair. Condition: Fair. This is the true U. Said front wrap, hand-corrected as called for, is bound in, with ad for January number of Longmans' Magazine in the same colors to verso.
Said bound-in front wrap is soiled. Text complete at pp. Said final page a bit wrinkled and stressed, but still easily read. However, the next page following final page of text is now the blank rear free endpaper -- original rear wrap missing and not bound in, and the same is true obviously for the publisher's ad to recto of said missing rear wrap. Else good. This paperback original has been bound in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, probably in the early 20th Century, as said gilt titles are now considerably faded, and both free endpapers moderately foxed.
A hard-to-find true first of a desirable book, this copy will close its own text block, but has been bound in after-market boards, and is missing original rear wrap; else good. If you wish to order this book, it's really very simple: Click "Add to Basket" and then "Proceed to Checkout. Published by Charles scribner's sons, Used - Hardcover Condition: Bon.
Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Over years of study, her doctor claimed that he had switched the places of these personalities.
This was not a moral matter, a separation of good and evil: it was merely a question of the curious mental dissociation of different personality traits. It is a strikingly modern conception of the mind. L C Bruce relates the case study of a patient suffering from dual personality disorder, one personality speaking English and behaving well, the other speaking Welsh and being disruptive.
He is a specialist in Late Victorian literature, Gothic and Science fiction literature and film, and the history of the supernatural. The text in this article is available under the Creative Commons License. Curator Greg Buzwell considers duality in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , exploring how the novel engages with contemporary debates about evolution, degeneration, consciousness, homosexuality and criminal psychology.
What does it mean to say a text is Gothic? Professor John Bowen considers some of the best-known Gothic novels of the late 18th and 19th centuries, exploring the features they have in common, including marginal places, transitional time periods and the use of fear and manipulation. The unidentified killer known as Jack the Ripper murdered a series of women in the Whitechapel area of London during Judith Flanders explores how the excitement and fear surrounding the mysterious murderer made its way into late-Victorian literature.
Professor John Bowen discusses key motifs in Gothic novels, including the uncanny, the sublime and the supernatural.
Filmed at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham. Taking inspiration from the origins of Frankenstein , this dark and atmospheric clip is narrated by Matthew Sweet, and illustrates how the novel came about. The book explores the doctrine of Aestheticism. The story of how Frankenstein's monster came into being in the summer of The story of a scientist who creates a monstrous being from an assemblage of body parts was written by an 18 year old woman.
Plot synopsis Jekyll and Hyde is the story of an eminent London doctor, whose friends worry that he is being blackmailed by a lower-class ruffian, Mr Hyde. Together, the first and final drafts took him a total of six days.
Fanny wrote afterwards: "That an invalid in my husband's condition performed the manual labour alone seems incredible. He was suffering from continual haemorrhages and hardly allowed to speak, his conversation carried on by means of a slate and pencil. Stevenson himself told a critic dourly: "The wheels of Byles the Butcher [a joking reference to his creditors, taken from George Eliot's novel Middlemarch] drive exceedingly swiftly.
Of his story, with its haunted moral that "man is not truly one, but truly two", he wrote to a friend: "I send you herewith a Gothic gnome, interesting I think, and he came out of a deep mine, where he guards the fountain of tears.
The Victorian explorer and Orientalist, was known as an expert on every scholarly subject "including pornography" - he translated the Kama Sutra and, from rare Arabic manuscripts, The Perfumed Garden.
The publicly reticent poet, in one of the greatest losses to 20th century biography, left a will asking his companion, Monica Jones, to burn all of his personal diaries after his death in However, his indiscreet letters have survived. The admired sculptor was the mistress of Auguste Rodin for 15 years. Her feelings of injustice at his hands led her frequently to destroy all the work in her studio. Taken by force to an asylum in , where she died.
The Russian dramatist and novelist fell victim to the "spiritual sadism" of an extreme Moscow priest, Father Matyev Konstantinovsky.
Ten days before Gogol's death in , while mentally unbalanced, he burned the final volume of his masterpiece, Dead Souls, at the priest's order. The poet and painter was so distressed by the suicide of his wife Elizabeth Siddal from an overdose of laudanum in that he buried all his manuscripts with her.
Later he changed his mind and had her body exhumed to recover them. He justified this volte face by telling a friend, "Art was the only thing for which she felt very seriously". His more explicit writings were burned by his widow, Isobel, after his death.
Philip Larkin The publicly reticent poet, in one of the greatest losses to 20th century biography, left a will asking his companion, Monica Jones, to burn all of his personal diaries after his death in
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