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Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Vailima (Samoa) Letters (Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894) .

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Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Vailima (Samoa) Letters (Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894) .

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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New York, NY Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Hardcover Copyright 1899. Very Good+: shows a hint of sunning to the crimson background field of the backstrip (the gilt titles and designs thereon remain unaffected: bold and clearly legible); the binding leans slightly, but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, very near-to-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor flaws. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.85 x 1.3 inches). xv, 322 pages. Selected and Edited with Notes and Editorial Note by Sidney Colvin. Frontispiece portrait of the author by W. Strang from a photograph by Falk with vellum tissue guard. Language: English. Weight: 24.5 ounces. Crimson buckram cloth over boards with gilt titles at the front panel with gold-ruled borders and gilt titles and designs at the backstrip. Top Edge Gilt. Rough cut fore-edge and bottom edge. Volume XVI of the standard set published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This was a lovely set. Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'.

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Title
Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Vailima (Samoa) Letters (Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894).
Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hardcover
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Copyright 1899.
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons,
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
1907.
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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Top Edge Gilt
Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Vellum
Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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...
Remainder
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Marginalia
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Buckram
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