VAILIMA LETTERS
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1895. Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin November 1890 - October 1894. London: Methuen & Co., 1895. Original pinkish-tan buckram decorated in gilt.
First English Edition, domestic issue (with title page in red and black), published about a week after the two-volume Chicago edition. "Vailima" ("five rivers") was the name Stevenson gave to the home he and his family made for themselves in Samoa. This copy is fine except that (as always with this color cloth) there is some fading of the spine. Beinecke (Yale) 613; Princeton 60B (copy 2 - no ads, as with this copy).
First English Edition, domestic issue (with title page in red and black), published about a week after the two-volume Chicago edition. "Vailima" ("five rivers") was the name Stevenson gave to the home he and his family made for themselves in Samoa. This copy is fine except that (as always with this color cloth) there is some fading of the spine. Beinecke (Yale) 613; Princeton 60B (copy 2 - no ads, as with this copy).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13923
- Title
- VAILIMA LETTERS
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1895
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nonfiction;
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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- 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....
- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Buckram
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- 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...