The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his family and friends [2 volumes].
by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Sidney Colvin:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen and co, 1900. Second edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 8vo, xliv, 375pp; xiii, 384pp. Two portrait frontispieces. Original burgundy cloth, title labels to the spines, top edges gilt. Bindings rubbed, title labels chafed, bookplate to the front endpaper of each volume, contents very good. Overall, this set is in good plus condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22138
- Title
- The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his family and friends [2 volumes].
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Sidney Colvin:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Methuen and co, 1900.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- Gilt
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