The Wrong Box
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1889).
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Pale brown cloth gilt with affixed printed paper labels as issued. Owner's name, front fly lacking, nicks and overall wear at the spine ends, a good only copy. The first of three collaborations by Stevenson and Osbourne, a black comedy about two brothers who vie to be the sole heir to a fortune. Basis for the great British comedy with John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, and many others.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
birth name: Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson
born: 11/13/1850
died: 12/3/1894
Biography
Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore