Catriona - a Sequel to "Kidnapped" Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1893. Publisher's rear catalogue dated August 1893. Cocked, spine sprung, gutters cracked exposing netting, lightly rubbed, spine slightly discoloured, endpapers foxed with the odd spot throughout, light stain to front board, small stamp to f-fep, else pp generally clean and bright.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000243
- Title
- Catriona - a Sequel to "Kidnapped" Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...