Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894 (Volume 17, Vailima Letters)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1901 Charles Scribner's Sons. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and decorations. Spine has gold thistle flower pattern in three sections; front cover has gold ruled border. Top page edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black & white frontispiece portrait has tissue guard. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Spine slightly faded. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Some light foxing on first few and last few pages. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Cover title: "Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson" Half-title page indicates this is Vol. XVII, "Vailima Letters". Spine title also "Vailima Letters". Carefully packed, shipped in a box. See our listings for other volumes from this set.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8226
- Title
- Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894 (Volume 17, Vailima Letters)
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Letters,Biography,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Literature; Letters;
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