New York: The S.S. McClure Co., 1897. Hardcover. Volume 8 includes Chapters 1 - 10 of the first appearance of "Captain Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling; short story "Bread Upon the Waters" by Kipling on page 140; short story "The Bell-Buoy" by Kipling on page 364; first printing of a portrait of Mark Twain after a painting by Charles Noel Flagg on page 384; poem "Appearances" by Robert Browning on page 401; later printing of the article "Life on a Greenland Whaler" by Doyle about his voyage to the Arctic as a surgeon on page 460; Chapters I - IV of "St. Ives" by Robert Louis Stevenson (later completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch); and a later printing of poem "A Clear Midnight" from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman on page 556; and much more. Ex-library from Allegheny College with bookplate to front endpaper and embossed stamp and ink stamp to first and last page of text. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Lacks title page and contents page. Clean aside from noted library markings and occasional smudge marks and light foxing. Illustrated. 556 pages. PER/061418. Very Good.

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