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THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first issue with the October, 1883 terminal ads and the word "His" missing on page 140. Fourteen essays on California's natural features and social life, based upon Stevenson's personal observations while living there (on his honeymoon, in 1880), including his famous description of the San Francisco Bay "sea-fogs" and an early account of the Napa Valley wine industry. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with decorative gilt and brown stamping. The front hinge is just starting and still quite sound. An exquisite example, with some very light rubbing along the extremities. Better than very good. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Howes S980; Zamorano Eighty 71.
Synopsis
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado". Squatting there for two months of a California summer, they installed makeshift cloth windows and hauled water from a close-by stream. The area they stayed in is now called The Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75502
- Title
- THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- Literature, California, Western Americana, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Wine Industry, Viticulture, Zamorano Eighty
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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