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The Silverado Squatters
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First state with publisher's catalogue dated October, 1883 and "His" missing from last sentence on page 140. Original green cloth. 254, 32 pages. Frontispiece. Bookplate of Jacobus Bromley. Binding and text block completely separated. Front free endpaper, half-title, and frontispiece loose. Has some wear to binding, mainly to ends of spine and corners of boards. Some wrinkling to front panel. Has a couple of notes in pencil including "1st Edition, Original binding" on front paste-down. Contents solid.
Synopsis
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado". Squatting there for two months of a California summer, they installed makeshift cloth windows and hauled water from a close-by stream. The area they stayed in is now called The Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
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- Bookseller
- MagicCarpetBooks.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009524
- Title
- The Silverado Squatters
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- Travel, History, 19th Century, 1880s, United States, California, Calistoga, Napa Valley, Mount Saint Helena, Scottish Authors, Convis Collection
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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- Cloth
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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