A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT; BEING A TALE CONCERNING ONE OF LIFE'S LESSER HARDSHIPS-COMMONLY CALLED TROUBLE
by STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1902. Marbled boards and endpapers. Small armorial book-plate front pastedown. Spine extremities a bit frayed but intact. Small chip missing from top of front cover marbled paper. Front cover professionally reattached, hinge strengthened. Hand-colored border on title-page and chapter heads. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard. This special edition was printed on Japan Vellum and illuminated by hand. This is copy #23/100. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER ELBERT HUBBARD AND THE COLORIST JOSEPHINE DWYER with the printing mark of Roycrofters hand-drawn . Crisp and clean internally... Signed by Publisher. Limited Roycrofter Edition. 3/4 Mottled Black Levant. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014173
- Title
- A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT; BEING A TALE CONCERNING ONE OF LIFE'S LESSER HARDSHIPS-COMMONLY CALLED TROUBLE
- Author
- STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Roycrofter Edition
- Publisher
- Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- Roycrofters, Elbert Hubbard, Autograph
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled boards
- ...