The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends; selected and edited with notes and introduction, by Sidney Colvin
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hardcover. 2 vols., 8vo, red cloth, gilt stamped spine, Vol. 1: frontis. photogravure portrait, [2 ff.], xliii, [1], 443 pp., 7 photo-mechanical plates; vol. 2: frontis. photogravure portrait, [3 ff.], v-xiii, [1], 465 pp., 5 photo-mechanical plates. Selected letters from Stevenson's Student Days at Edinburgh, Life in Bournemouth, Winter in the Adirondacks, Pacific Voyages, Life in Samoa, and other phases of his life. Edited by Stevenson's friend, literary critic and print curator Sidney Colvin. CONDITION: Good, lightly worn, spine somewhat sunned, a few easily erased pencil notations on endpapers; tight and clean.
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- James Arsenault & Company (US)
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- 5022
- Title
- The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends; selected and edited with notes and introduction, by Sidney Colvin
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901
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Arrowsic, Maine
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