Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$16.47A$13.18
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About This Item
Edinburgh: The New University Society Book. Good. Burgundy Leatherette. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Undated edition. Dedication by the author dated 1881. Introduction by Frederick Dunbar. 416pp, illustratred with black and white portrait to frontis and one other plate. Top edges gilt. Gilt design to front board and spine, with gilt lettering. Red ribbon page marker, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to spine and corners, minor marking to boards and edges and ribbon frayed otherwise good copy..
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009255
- Title
- Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The New University Society
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
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Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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