VAILIMA LETTERS Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin November 1890-October 1894
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Special Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in marbled boards, bound in 3/4 leather with a hubbed spine, marbled end papers and gilt top page edges. A few small bumps and nicks to spine. Wear to leather at spine edges. Text is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of Mr. Stevenson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
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- Evolving Lens Bookseller (US)
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- 10275
- Title
- VAILIMA LETTERS Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin November 1890-October 1894
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Special Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...