Essays and Criticisms
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Clean decorated American trade binding (signed binding - monogram TBH on cover design). Burgundy cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Tiny spots of wear to a few corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner names on front free endpapers. Nice frontispiece photo portrait of Stevenson with clean printed tissue guard (a photo taken of him in Honolulu). Title page decorated with oval photo of Stevenson's home in Edinburgh. Pages are clean, with gilt top edges, sewn-in ribbon page marker. 267 pages. Size approx. 4.5" x 6.5".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034595
- Title
- Essays and Criticisms
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Small, Maynard & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Essays, criticism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Decorated American Trade Binding, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays; Decorated American Trade Binding; DATB;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.