HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 15th.* Date of Publication: June 1915 (1901).* Publisher: Methuen & Co.Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, slight rubs to corners, head and tail of spine, some general wear to covers. GOOD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Adhesive label masking inscription to FEP. Clean and tight with no only light reading wear. Some offsetting to prelims, no marks to text, slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. GOOD* Illustrations: One b/w tissue guarded portrait engraving to frontis.* Pages: 402 pp. text. lxxxviii pp. appendices, index & book publishers list at rear.* Description: This book was intended to supplement the volume of Stevenson?s Letters already published. It was to have been written by Sir Sidney Colvin, and to have appeared simultaneously with the original volumes of correspondence, so admirably edited by him. Unfortunately health and opportunity failed him at the last moment and Mrs. Stevenson handed the task to his cousin Graham Balfour who had been his intimate companion for the last two years of his life.* A GOOD copy with some age and reading wear. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5717
Title: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Balfour, Graham
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD/GD/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 15th Edition.
Publisher: Methuen
Place of Publication: London UK. 0
Date Published: 1915-01-01
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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