BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Coral Island

Reward Classics, circa 1940. Hardback. Octavo. Red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Dustwrapper worn, with lower third of front missing. Light wear to covers. Neat dedication on front endpaper. Pages tanned. Reading Copy.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 94492

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: Adventure Shipwreck

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Coral Island

Murray's Abbey Classics. Hardback. Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Blue cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Covers worn at edges. Pages tanned. Reading Copy.

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Book number: 94493

Catalogue: Pre 1940

Keywords: Adventure

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Coral Island

Andrew Dakers. Hardback. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Dustwrapper chipped and heavily worn. Light wear to covers. Pages tanned. Reading Copy.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 94495

Catalogue: Pre 1940

Keywords: Adventure

Ballantyne, Robert Michael

The Coral Island : A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Dalziel. 438pp. Green cloth, decorative spine with gilt lettering, engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Covers are worn and scuffed, joints and hinges splitting but holding, preliminary pages foxed and text lightly foxed, endpapers missing, number written on pastedown, illustrations present and all with tissue-guards, and text is complete. Fair/No Jacket.

Old BookshelfProfessional seller

Book number: 002436

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: Ocean Maritime Tropics

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Coral Island

Dean and Son, circa 1960. Reprint. Hardback. Blue covers. Black lettering on spine. Abridged edition. Dustwrapper worn at edges. Light wear to edges of covers. Pages tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 112817

Catalogue: Post 1940

BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael

Coral Island, the: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean-

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. Excessively Rare First Edition, First Issue, of “The Coral Island” The Edgar Osborne Copy Exhibited at The Festival of Britain Books in 1951 BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean- With Illustrations by the Author. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition, first issue, with the plate “Terrible Encounter with a Shark” facing p. 76 (in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm.). viii, [9]-438, [2, blank] pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing p. 214 with original tissue-guard. Publisher’s first issue binding of royal blue diagonal ripple-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. The binding is worn and the gilt on the front cover is quite dull. The spine has been expertly repaired with a small piece missing from the center left and some loss of cloth at head and foot. Corners a little worn , inner hinges expertly restored. Neat early ink presentation (December 25th 1859) on front pastedown. Small ink stain on fore-edge affecting pp. 297 to end. Page 387/388 has the top blank margin (1 x 3 3/8 inches) torn away not affecting any text but just touching the page number on verso. There is a small stain at the top blank corner of page 339. There are also several leaves with small portions of the lower blank corners missing (possibly original paper-faults). We have been super critical in our description - overall a good copy of this extremely scarce nineteenth-century children’s book. Only a handful of copies of the first issue in the original cloth have sold at auction in the past fifty years. This copy comes from the library of a very well-known collector of English Literature who died in 2008. It was exhibited at the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books 1951 which was arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum as exhibit no. 68. The original exhibition slip is loosely inserted. Together with a copy (ex library) of the original 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books catalog listing this copy on p. 33 (item no. 68) listing the lender as the renowned librarian and founder of one of the premier collections of children's fiction, Edgar Osborne. “Most of the incidents used in the plot of ‘The Coral Island’, the author’s most famous book, Ballantyne culled from an obscure work entitled ‘The Island Home; or, The Young Cast-Aways’, by James F. Bowman, who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher Romaunt. ‘The Island Home’ was published in Boston, U.S.A. in 1851, and by Nelson’s of Edinburgh in 1852, and Ballantyne took a copy with him to Burntisland, near Edinburgh, where he spent a fortnight’s holiday during the summer of 1857. The full story is given in chapter six of Ballantyne the Brave. The writer’s other main source of information was ‘Recent Exploring Expeditions to the Pacific, and the South Seas’ by J.S. Jenkins, published by Nelsons in 1853” (Quayle). Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than one hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colors at the Royal Scottish Academy. The Coral Island (1858) is the most popular of the Ballantyne novels still read and remembered today, but because of one mistake he made in that book, in which he gave an incorrect thickness of coconut shells, he subsequently attempted to gain first-hand knowledge of his subject matter. For instance, he spent some time living with the lighthouse keepers at the Bell Rock before writing The Lighthouse, and while researching for Deep Down he spent time with the tin miners of Cornwall. Edgar Osborne (1890–1978) was a distinguished librarian, an able administrator, scholar and collector, who founded one of the premier collections of children's fiction, the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910, volume I, p. 322; Quayle. R.M. Ballantyne. A Bibliography of First Editions. 12a; Sadleir 103. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05045

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books European Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

Ballantyne, Robert Michael

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. With Illustrations by the Author

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. 12mo. 438 pp. Very Good-, Blue Cloth, Gilt-stamped on cover and spine; sun-staining, rubbing, minor stains, & edge wear on boards; foxing and staining throughout, on end papers & edges of text block; pencil scribbles on end papers; splitting along gutters of end papers and a few places within the text block; p.111 with small tears & losses; shelf wear. Appears that p.303 has been tipped in from a more recent edition. Six full color plates. Provenance: John Ruyle; previous owner's dated signature on FFEP. First Edition. Mylar Jacket. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 16-1996

Catalogue: Books

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Dog Crusoe and His Master

Juvenile Productions, circa 1935. Reprint. Hardback. Red boards with black lettering. Pages tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 73274

Catalogue: Pre 1940

Keywords: America

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Dog Crusoe and His Master

Sunday School Union, circa 1920. Hardback. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards. Black lettering on covers. Black decoration on covers. 192 pages. Covers worn and a little scuffed. Some finger marking to page edges. Reading Copy.

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Book number: 91973

Catalogue: Pre 1940

Keywords: America

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Dog Crusoe

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. Hardback. Dark green pictorial cloth-covered boards. Black lettering on covers. Colour frontispiece. Light wear to covers. Corners bumped. Spine a little scuffed. Prize label inside front cover. Pages slightly tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 115498

Catalogue: Post 1940

Robert Michael Ballantyne

The Giant of the North or Pokings Round the Pole

London, James Nisbet and Co, 1882. Cloth. A scarce copy of this adventure story by Robert Michael Ballantyne. Ninth thousand. Illustrated throughout with numerous vignettes. Dated using Copac. With eight-page publisher's catalogue to the rear In a pictorial cloth binding. Externally, sound, though marked and with some bumping. Front hinge tender, with endpapers missing. Internally, binding strained in places. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Pages are bright, though with some foxing to the title page and some spotting throughout. Fair . Ill.: None. Fair .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: GEN34-D-11

Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900

Keywords: Robert MIchael Ballantyne Adventure Novel Adventure None

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

The Gorilla Hunters

Juvenile Productions, circa 1938. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. Green cloth-covered boards. Black lettering on covers. 256 pages. Colour frontispiece by C. Leslie, no other illustrations. Dustwrapper chipped, and rather baggy. Covers clean. Prize label on front endpaper, dated 1938. Contents clean and white. One section (pages 149 - 156) present, but has pulled away from the binding. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 90641

Catalogue: Pre 1940

Keywords: Adventure

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL

Gorilla Hunters, The - A Tale of the Wilds of Africa

London, Nelson. 1893. Hardback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 5 x 7.5"; 328 pages; blue cloth with black illustration and decorations, title in blue relief on gilt; coloured frontispiece; prize label to front pastedown; very good;. Good/No Jacket - as issued.

Books & BygonesProfessional seller

Book number: 8971

Catalogue: Animals

Keywords: Gorilla; Africa; Adventure; Boys;

ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE

The gorilla hunters

T. Nelson & Sons. 1899. hardcover, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Previous owner's ink inscription. 1899 edition. Blue cloth. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 243881

Catalogue: Fiction

Robert Michael Ballantyne

The Gorilla Hunters

London, Thomas, Nelson and Sons, 1914. Cloth. A beautifully colour illustrated edition of Ballantyne's popular adventure novel set in Africa, and the sequel to 'The Coral Island&apos. A new edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates. Collated complete.A beautifully illustrated edition of Robert Michael Ballantyne's sequel to his best known work, 'The Coral Island&apos. This sequel is set six years after 'Coral Island', and is set in Africa, where the characters encounter animal hunters and slave traders. The work is noted for its inclusion of the hunt for gorillas, which was animal that was unknown to the Western World until just before the publication of the novel. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing and fading to the spine, slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities, and a slight lean. Offsetting to the free endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription dated 1918. Front hinge tender after the frontispiece. Internally, binding strained in places but otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 923Z26

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: R. M. Ballantyne Robert Michael Ballantyne Africa Adventure Robert Michael Ballantyne The Coral Island None