The Body Snatcher 1st Edition 1895 Robert Louis Stevenson Merriam Company

The Body Snatcher 1st Edition 1895 Robert Louis Stevenson Merriam Company

"The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson. First Edition, 1895.

Frontispiece and 3 illustrations. 24mo, publisher's violet cloth stamped in dark purple, spine slightly darkened with light rubbing.

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This is the first edition in book form. Published as #2 of Merriam's "Violet Series" books. The story first appeared in the Christmas number of Pall Mall Magazine in 1884. Written in June 1881, it was originally intended to be published in the Cornhill Magazine but was "laid aside in a justifiable disgust, the tale being horrid" (Prideaux, 131). No separate book edition appeared in England until 1906. Source for the 1945 film starring Boris Karloff.