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ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH OTHER MEMORIES AND ESSAYS
by STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Light Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1892. Corners bevelled. Spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Small water spot front cover. Edges and spine extremities show light wear. Book-plate front free endpaper. Peripheral foxing of front endpapers. Internally a very clean copy. 317pp.. First English Edition. Black Cloth. General Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013575
- Title
- ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH OTHER MEMORIES AND ESSAYS
- Author
- STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- English Literature, Travel
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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