London: Chatto and Windus. Hardback. First edition with "his" omitted on the last but one line p. 140 and the 32pp catalogue bound in. Half bound in black leather with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt borders and 1883 in gilt to tail of spine. Grey marl cloth to boards and leather corners, with gilt bordering edges of the cloth. Marbled endpapers. Frontis. by Jos Strong. Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrif, and her son Lloyd Osbourne, at an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena, Napa Valley, California, in 1880. Minor nick to leather surface in top panel of spine but a bright, clean, square, tight copy of this very attractive first edition. Very good copy . Hardback. 1883.

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Bookseller: C L Hawley (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19098
Title: The Silverado Squatters
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1883
Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson,First edition,Scottish literature,Nineteenth , century American,California,Napa Valley,Travel,American history,, Antiquarian,Victorians,Victorian literature

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