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TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES: Fine Paper Edition with a Frontispiece by Walter Crane
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. Small hard cove. No dust jacket.. Black boards Impressed titles and decoration on front board. Gilt titles and decoration on board spine. NB: Top section of board spine(titles) has been beeen braced/repaired with clear tape. aSurface wear/peeling/small splits on other areas of board spine. Giilt on top edges of pages Flower decoration pattern endpapers/pastedowns. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. Black and white frontispiece illustration by Walter Crane. Tissue guard before title page. Pages are tanned and lightly foxed. Some pages are slighly creased. Strong interior binding. Tight pages. Location: RED 4/B . Good. Hardcover. REPRINT. REPRINT. 1911.
Synopsis
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still popular today; recently when asked why the Scotsman still informs the identity of the Cevennes, a politician and historian of the area remarked "Because he showed us the landscape that makes us who we are."
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- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018245
- Title
- TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES: Fine Paper Edition with a Frontispiece by Walter Crane
- Author
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- Illustrator
- WALTER CRANE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- CHATTO & WINDUS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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