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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE (the pen had bled a little through to copyright page). Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine…, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped ($26.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 477pp. At the age of thirty five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium with her three children and nanny in tow to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated 'belle Americaine'. Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing, and who would eventually pen such classics as 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. In time though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair, marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness, that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson's own unforgettable tales. Jacket by Archie Ferguson (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).
