Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes / The Silverado Squatters / Memories and Portraits
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Co-Operative Publication Society, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Large 8vo. Half leather over marbled boards. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece and illustrations. 256, 190 pp.
Minor scuffing to edges and bumped corners. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean.
This is a finely printed volume of Stevenson's travel writing. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Minor scuffing to edges and bumped corners. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean.
This is a finely printed volume of Stevenson's travel writing. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2874
- Title
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes / The Silverado Squatters / Memories and Portraits
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Co-Operative Publication Society
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.