The Story of a Friendship: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Simoneau (INSCRIBED)
NP: Published by the author, 1927. Second edition. Square 8vo. 12 pp. 6 black & white plates (including frontispiece of Stevenson). INSCRIBED "No man is useless while he has a friend". RLS. Josephine Mildred Blanch." Orange stiff staple-bound wrappers with black illustration & lettering to front cover. Light fading to spine else a fine copy. Item #21626
During Robert Louis Stevenson's months of recurperation in Monterey in 1879, he became friends with Jules Simoneau, a local character, restauranteur & saloonkeeper. The two remained lifelong friends.
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