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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures At Home And Abroad (First Ameridan Printing)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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LA QUINTA, California, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: SCRIBNERS, 1893. First American Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First American Edition--First Printing. From the recently auctioned collection of M. B. Goldstone & Homer Goldstone (Steinbeck's bibliographers) with the superb gold bookplate lightly attached to the front pastedown. This copy is in dark tan cloth with dark brown and silver decorations and lettering to the front board. Spine is decorated in same with gold gilt lettering. A handsome copy with slightly toned cloth spine with tiny specks of splashes at the heel. Original owners name in ink and dated 1894 on front free endpaper. Otherwise a tight and sturdy copy with a strong hinge and binding. A very collectible copy. 406 pp with 4 pp of advertising at the verso.
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- Bookseller
- Classic First Editions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- cfe12964
- Title
- David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures At Home And Abroad (First Ameridan Printing)
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- SCRIBNERS
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1893
- Pages
- 406
- Keywords
- FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- M.B. Goldstone Collection;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic First Editions
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LA QUINTA, California
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
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