St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- In exceptionally good condition
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full gilt-embossed green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with frontis and 3 b-w photogravures. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Two small stamps on fore 'n aft endpapers "Library Eastern Washington State Hospital" A good copy to fill out a broken set, AS NEW. St. Ives is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Lewis Best Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27287
- Title
- St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used - In exceptionally good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- English Literature Napoleonic Wars
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