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David Balfour, Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Uniform edition of Stevenson's work. Full gilt edge to top of text block. Deckled fore edge.Clean text and interior. Frontispiece with clean tissue adjacent title page. Gold gilt tile on spine. Gilt embossed design on front cover. Crisp, clean copy. Tight, square binding. As handsome a copy as you will find of this 110+ year old title.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101218
- Title
- David Balfour, Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
Genesee Books
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
Biblio member since 2016
Rochester, New York
About Genesee Books
Online book seller out of Rochester NY. My tastes are libertine and quirky and the selection of books tends to reflect those preferences.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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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