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Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings; Prose Pieces
by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Henry H. Harper ed
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited first edition, 1921--one of 450 unnumbered copies printed. Vellum-backed cloth boards, gilt top edge, 195 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, minor ex-library treatments (bookplate on the front pastedown, small library stamps on a couple of pages), some soiling or discoloration to the vellum, light rubbing or wear to the edges of the covers, no dust jacket.
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Details
- Seller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- s00013131
- Title
- Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings; Prose Pieces
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis; Henry H. Harper ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- The Bibliophile Society
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Rare, Fine Bindings & Limited Editions
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
Biblio member since 2005
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Common Crow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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