Books

"Authorized Edition" Early printing in 1886. 7 1/8th" tall. Tight binding, solid olive green boards with bright gilt lettering to front board and spine strip, gently rubbed corners and spine ends, previous owner's bookplate to front paste down, name to front end paper, 4 pages of ads to rear. Previous owner, Henry William Rankin (1851 - 1937) of E. Northfield, MA, was librarian at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and a theologian, philosopher, and author. Rankin was a noted correspondent of William James. On late blank pages Rankin pasted in and made hand-written notes regarding Stevenson's life, his literary inspirations as well as R.L.S.'s epitaph.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.