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Across The Plains With Other Memories And Essays
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First Edition. Good in dark blue cloth covered beveled boards with gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 4 7/8 inches with the cloth worn through at the tips of the boards and beginning to wear and separate at the front joint. The cloth at the head of the spine is worn down to the the upper edge of the text block and there are minor spots of foxing to the rear four pages of text. Without a dust jacket. 317 pages of text. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 48)
Synopsis
Leaves from the notebook of an emigrant between New York and San Fancisco
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB29111
- Title
- Across The Plains With Other Memories And Essays
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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