Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1915. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1915. No Edition Remarks. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Intense warping and bubbling to rear. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright. A few paint spots to front.
Synopsis
Leaves from the notebook of an emigrant between New York and San Fancisco
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1654681911LSA
- Title
- Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1915
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...