The Poems and Ballads of Robert Louis Stevenson [FIRST EDITION]
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. xvi, 368 pp.
Very minor shelf wear. Two bookplates inside front cover. An excellent copy.
This is a first edition of Stevenson's collected poetic works. Contains A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Poems Posthumously Published, and Ballads. (Prideaux 122) This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Very minor shelf wear. Two bookplates inside front cover. An excellent copy.
This is a first edition of Stevenson's collected poetic works. Contains A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Poems Posthumously Published, and Ballads. (Prideaux 122) This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
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- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2864
- Title
- The Poems and Ballads of Robert Louis Stevenson [FIRST EDITION]
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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