Kidnapped - Original Text and Illustrations

by Robert Louis Stevenson

edited by Barry Menikoff - signed

Subtitled, "or the Lad with the Silver Button", this is the original text as Stevenson wrote it, with restored punctuation and using the distinctive language that has been altered in modern versions. There is a glossary and a gazetteer at the end of the book. The original drawings that accompanied the text during its serialization in the weekly magazine 'Young Folks Paper' also add to the readers' pleasure of enjoying the book as it was meant by Stevenson to be read.

Signed by the editor, Barry Menikoff, professor of English and American literature at the University of Hawaii and one of the world's leading authorities on Robert Louis Stevenson and his works.  Funded and published by the Huntington Library.

Book is black boards with gold-stamped spine. The jacket depicts Castle Tyrim and Castle Duart from plans from the National Library of Scotland.