STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... Authorized Edition, FIRST EDITION, New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1886STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... Authorized Edition, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 4-pages of advertisements at end, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, very slightly rubbed at spine extremities, preserved in cloth solander box [Prideaux 17], 8vo, New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1886The first appearance of Stevenson's 'shilling shocker', "a moral allegory about the divided self and the problem of evil, the main incidents of which came to him in a dream" (ODNB), which achieved and enduring world-wide.The first edition, this American imprint preceded the English edition by four days. Only 1200 copies were issued in cloth, with a further 3000 copies in wrappers.Provenance: Margaret Carr, pencil inscription on the front free endpaper.