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THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy 221 of 250 signed by photographer Michael Kenna. Fourteen delightful essays resulting from the author's dwelling high on the side of Mt. St. Helena by the entrance to an abandoned silver mine. Introduction by Oscar Lewis, with notes by James D. Hart. Octavo: xvi, 107, [1] p. with 16 duo-tone photographs by Michael Kenna. Designed by Andrew Hoyem and letterpress printed on mouldmade Zerkall. Original cork boards over a cloth spine, with a printed cork spine label. A fine copy.
Synopsis
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado". Squatting there for two months of a California summer, they installed makeshift cloth windows and hauled water from a close-by stream. The area they stayed in is now called The Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75490
- Title
- THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Arion Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Literature, California, Western Americana, Fine Press, Letterpress Printing, Photography, Zamorano Eighty
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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