STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR With kindest regards from the author on the front free endpaper, C. Kegan Paul, 1879STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "With kindest regards from the author" on the front free endpaper, frontispiece the first gathering detached, publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, dark brown endpapers, hinges and corners worn, some abrasions, upper lower partially split, cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase gilt lettered on spine [Prideaux 3], 8vo, C. Kegan Paul, 1879Inscribed presentation copy of the author's third book, gifted to his cousin Maud Babington.Provenance: Maud Babington (ne Wilson), inscribed in ink on the title-page, and "Mrs Wilson, 56 Risbygate St., Bury St. Edmunds" in pencil beneath gift inscription. Stevenson enjoyed stays in 1870 and 1873 with Maud and her husband Churchill Babington at their home at Cockfield, near Bury St. Edmunds; Sotheby's, 11 December 2003, lot 101.