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The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson

First published 1964
Publisher Airmont Books
Format Paperback
Type Novel
Catalog ID CL47
Pages 192
Price $0.50


Published November 1888 to October 1887 as a 12-part serial in Scribner's Magazine, vols 3-5, with illustrations by {{a|William Hole}}; beginning vol 4, no 5, page 570 (viewed at HathiTrust). There are 10 full-page illustrations and no others, signed "WHole", with different engravers. They include frontispiece plates(?) of the January, April, and July 1888 issues.

Scribner's Magazine was published in both New York and London simultaneously or nearly so.

Speculative element: the Master apparently dies and returns to life several times in the novel, and it is revealed that this is a secret art he learned in India.

Introduction by B. Allen Bentley. Data from Worldcat and from a cover image. Price on top right of cover.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Master of Ballantrae Cover 2012 Dover Publications eBook Novel