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Ballads
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Cloth/no dust jacket. Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. dark blue cloth gilt lettering in gilt borders to spine no dust jacket edges bevelled top edge gilt foredge deckled 137 pp first UK edition endpapers browned
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- P10123
- Title
- Ballads
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket. Octavo
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- first edition, British, English
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
San Francisco Book Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
San Francisco Book Company
Biblio member since 2008
Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
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