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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson VOLUME XI: The Wrong Box; The Ebb Tide
by STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Thistle Edition, 1924 printing of the 1895-99 Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. VOLUME XI: The Wrong Box and The Ebb Tide (both written in collaboration with Loyd Osbourne). Binding of red buckram, embossed pebble cloth gilt title blocks on front with decorative tooling with thistle design, gilt titles on spine with decoratively tooled compartments, with embossed thistle design at spine head and heel, not gilt. Front inner hinge cracked. Very clean, slight rubbing of some corners and spine edges; tight sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Top edge gilt. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Endpapers, flyleaf very clean. Frontis tissue protected: From a drawing by Alfred Brennan, in browntones. Pages very clean and unmarked, lightly toned. A handsome solid volume. 399 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1924. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 11/3/1850 TO 12/3/1884, SCOTTISH NOVELIST, POET, ESSAYIST, AND TRAVEL WRITER.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020408
- Title
- The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson VOLUME XI: The Wrong Box; The Ebb Tide
- Author
- STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; CLASSICAL THISTLE EDITION;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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