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Prideaux notes that TREASURE ISLAND was first issued in several different colors of cloth with no priority, however the first print run of 2000 copies was split into groups issued over a few months at the end of 1883. William Francis Prideaux observes that TREASURE ISLAND was "a comparative failure" in its serial form, and only found success when it was published as a complete work (27). Robert Louis Stevenson penned what would become his breakout success while recovering from one of his many illnesses, and it originally appeared serially in YOUNG FOLKS magazine. With numerous film, TV, and theater adaptations that cast everyone from Orson Welles to Tim Curry and the Muppets as Long John Silver and company, the cultural reach of TREASURE ISLAND is extremely broad. First printing of this beloved tale of pirates and treasure maps, the touchstone for the modern concept of the peg-legged pirate with unexpected depth of character. It has also inspired countless dramatic, cinematic and television adaptations, together with sequels and musicals.Condition: Very good. Remarkably it attracted little attention, but when it was published in book form as here in November 1883 it attracted a chorus of praise and has never been out of print since. Treasure Island had originally been serialized (under the pseudonym Captain George North) in Young Folks – a weekly children’s magazine – between October 1881 and January 1882. The first edition was issued in various colours of cloth, and with a number of unique issue points as follows: “dead man’s chest” not capitalised on pages 2 or 7, the first letter of “vain” broken in the last line of page 40, the “a” not present in line 6 of page 63, the “8” dropped from the pagination on page 83, etc Gilt faded on spine, mild foxing to preliminary leaves, repair & restoration to upper margin of title page (not affecting text), otherwise a fine bright copy. Half-title, chart frontispiece printed in four colours with tissue guard, 8-page publisher’s catalogue at the end (numbered “5R.1083” and incorrectly listing ‘Treasure Island’ with 304 pages), black-coated endpapers, preserved in felt lined solander box. Original brick-red cloth lettered in gilt on spine.