First edition, mixed issue points. Hardcover. Publisher: London Cassell & Company Ltd, 1886 viii, 311 (1) Treasure Island ad, (16) publisher's ads. It features a lithographically printed color fold-out map which is a Sketch of the Cruise of the Brig Covenant and the probable course of David Balfour's Wanderings. Bound in publisher's red cloth ruled in blind with titles in gilt on the spine. Stained top edge and black endpapers. Has first edition issue points such as "business" on page 40, line 11 (rather than "pleasure") and, advertisement for Treasure Island on p.312. "Long Islands" on p.101, lines 9-10. "nine o'clock" on p. 64. The first printing issue point missing is the publisher's ads being dated '5 G-7 86. Also missing is the catalog page of Bibles and Religious Works. No DJ.

Condition: Very Good The spine is cocked and lightly faded. The front cover shows sign of splitting but remains tight. Front cover top has a square that is faded. Edges of covers are bumped with some edgewear. Top and bottom of spine is bumped. Text is lightly foxed to pages up to page 7. Last pages of catalog are foxed. Internally, there is no inscriptions or bookplates. The black endpapers are in very good condition. The pages are generally very clean.

Kidnapped was first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks in 1886. In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, David Balfour's father dies. The young David Balfour discovers that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance. Subsequently, his uncle has David kidnapped and placed on a ship bound for the Carolinas. Aboard ship, Balfour and Alan Breck, a political rebel, become friends. When the ship is wrecked, they escape across the Scottish Highlands under suspicion of having committed a political murder that they accidentally witnessed. Balfour eventually reclaims his inheritance and also aids Breck’s cause.

A classic novel meets all the first edition issue points except advertisement dates.