The Travels and Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson : Virginibus Puerisque, and Memories and Portraits (Volume XIII)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Edited By Roy Gasson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Red cloth hardcover with gilt top edge, and gilt lettering and decoration to front cover ansd spine, 358 pages, frontpiece illustration; very gently used ex-school board office library copy with faint residue of spine label, ink numeral on front cover and inside front cover, very light shelf wear, all pages rough cut (edges untrimmed) or still uncut, tight in binding, free front endpaper removed, otherwise very clean and unmarked. For more essays, and who can get enough?, see also our listing for The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection From the Works of the Great Essayists from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin, With Introduction, Biographical Notices and Critical Notes.. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027653
- Title
- The Travels and Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson : Virginibus Puerisque, and Memories and Portraits (Volume XIII)
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis; Edited By Roy Gasson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- FICTION LITERATURE ENGLAND SCOTLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Travel; Essays;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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