Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd,
Title: The Wrong Box.
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Faded spot to front boards and with otherwise light rubbing to extremities; Nice early edition. Wikipedia says: "co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which all the benefits go to the last survivor. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries" ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages. Very Good.

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