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A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Three year prior to his death the Scottish author wrote this critical account of the Samoan Civil War (1886-1894), castigating the colonial powers who involved themselves. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition, issued at the same time as the English version, but less common. Decorative olive cloth binding; decorations in black, with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 322 pages; with a twelve-page catalog of "Selected Essays" in the rear. A solid and Near Fine copy, with hints only of rub to the margins; ghost of a stain on front cover. A small closed tear to the FFEP has been repaired with archival tape.. In an archival plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005978
- Title
- A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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