Robert Louis Stevenson
by Rosaline Masson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G/N/a
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London / Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1920. Short biography of "Treasue Island" author in the "People's Books" series. Red covers with black lettering and emblem to spine and upper board, 126pp inc index, plus 2pp adverts, with frontis protrait of Stevenson. Covers have modest wear and bumpng to extrems, but sunned edges and spine and several marks on upper board. Page edges dusty and foxed, as are prelims. Otherwise internaly clean and tight. Presumed first. No DJ. Ref:104445. First Edition (?). Cloth. G/N/a. 11x16.5cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004446
- Title
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author
- Rosaline Masson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Edition (?)
- Publisher
- T. C. & E. C. Jack
- Place of Publication
- London / Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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