An Inland Voyage
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Excellent
- Seller
-
Redding, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London:: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. A beautiful copy of Stevenson's early classic bound in the publisher's original binding with gilt pictorial decoration to front cover and gilted spine.Stevenson glories in the slow pace of his vagabond life traveling through France. The young author expresses pleasure at having been suspected of being a Prussian spy by the French gendarmes and pride at having endured hunger, cold, and misery on a hard and dangerous journey. Some minor rubbing, soiling and creasing to covers but a strong and excellent copy. Bookplate to front paste down.. First Edition. Original Blue Cloth Gilt. Excellent. 8vo..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 882293
- Title
- An Inland Voyage
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Excellent
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- C. Kegan Paul & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1878
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Quaker Hill Books
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Redding, Connecticut
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