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The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society. Fine. 1991. Hardcover. In these two memoirs, Robert Louis Stevenson shares his observations as he travels from Scotland to America, sharing the plight of poor emigrants on a steamship and his experiences crossing the continent to California. In the second part, he describes his unconventional honeymoon at an abandoned mine in the wine country of Northern California. With a few scattered black & white photos and drawings. With an introduction by James Michie and maps of Northern California to endpapers. --- In red cloth with wrap-around illustration to covers, spine titling in gilt, red topstain. Volume wrapped in black paper-covered slipcase. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Slipcase with mild soiling, otherwise in good shape and structurally sound.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xv, [8], 8-231 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88262
- Title
- The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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