ALEXANDER, Kenneth.

Robert Louis Stevenson: Fifteen Photographs Taken in Hawaii and Samoa.

Item #73862

(STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS). ALEXANDER, Kenneth. Robert Louis Stevenson: Fifteen Photographs Taken in Hawaii and Samoa. Original cloth-backed boards portfolio, printed paper label on front board. New York: Kenneth Alexander, [1926]. Small folio. First edition. Beinecke 1391. Princeton 68. One of 50 numbered copies, signed by the photographer. All plates were destroyed after this edition was printed. Consists of printed contents leaf and 15 mounted silver gelatin prints; twelve photographs of Stevenson and three photographic facsimiles of correspondence. Images of Stevenson with Queen Liliuokaliani, King Kalakaua, the King and Queen at a Luau, with friends in Honolulu, and painting a local villager in Samoa. Laid in are samples of Stevenson's stationery. Light wear to corners, boards lightly rubbed, else very good.

Price: $1,500.00