Collectors item Rare treasure I found “TreasureIsland" by Robert Louis Stevenson is an adventure fiction novel that is also categorized as young adult literature. It features themes of pirates and coming-of-age experiences. “To the Hesitating Purchaser If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day: —So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave; So be it, also! And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie!” Children’s press, Chicago Copyright 1968 by classic press, incorporated Printed in the United States of America Allservice phototypesetting company, Glenview Illinois NJ