A Lodging for the Night: Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships - Commonly Called Trouble
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Benson, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. leather bound. Good. light shelf wear, personal bookplate to second blank page. In red suede with gilt lettering. Suede shows some aging and darkening. Salmon moiré endpapers, yapped edges, 45 pages with colophon. First printing. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Shed (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 997935
- Title
- A Lodging for the Night: Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships - Commonly Called Trouble
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, NY
- Date Published
- 1902
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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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...