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Valima Letters [Thistle Edition]; Correspondence Addressed to Sydney Colvin November 1890 to October 1894
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's, 1900. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Leather pastedown to spine. Gilt top edge. Hand-pressed paper with deckle edge. Frontispiece. 322 pp.
Minor shelf wear. 2" tear to cloth on front hinge. Front hinge overopened. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean.
This is a limited edition collection of Stevenson's writings. From the "brown cloth printing" of the Thistle Edition of Stevenson's complete works. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa. (Prideaux 276).
Minor shelf wear. 2" tear to cloth on front hinge. Front hinge overopened. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean.
This is a limited edition collection of Stevenson's writings. From the "brown cloth printing" of the Thistle Edition of Stevenson's complete works. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa. (Prideaux 276).
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- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3457
- Title
- Valima Letters [Thistle Edition]; Correspondence Addressed to Sydney Colvin November 1890 to October 1894
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
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