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Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 107 p. 25 cm. Sound and square binding in white, paper-covered boards. Bottom corners are bumped and bottom edges show wear. All edges a bit darkened. Gift inscription on the front pastedown endpaper. Pages are clean and slightly age toned. One plate has a long tear, repaired with cello tape, now yellowed. Dustjacket has a large piece (about 1/3) missing from rear panel. Edges have wear and chips (some large). Spine is darkened. Soiled overall. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1764
- Title
- Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Illustrator
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
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Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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