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The Silverado Squatters (A Seaside Library Pocket Edition #1110)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner inked name, "Mary Stoddard", front top. Age-toning. Back page, spine creas
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York.: George Munro's Sons., 1902. Trade paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner inked name, "Mary Stoddard", front top. Age-toning. Back page, spine creasing. Lower spine half-inch tear. Other mid-spine edge wear.. 1 97 p. Early trade-size paperback, illustrated blue and white covers. Glued binding. 30-plus pgs ads and publisher's list. Quaker Oats back cover ad, blue and white. One of 11 Stevenson tales published in this format, by early 20th century. These and other authors' works were available by inexpensive subscription, even for a century ago, delivering literature to rural readers. For collectors, the inventory details can be found herein at the back of the book. This edition is in better condition than some, considering the economy in production materials.
Synopsis
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado". Squatting there for two months of a California summer, they installed makeshift cloth windows and hauled water from a close-by stream. The area they stayed in is now called The Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.F4520008523
- Title
- The Silverado Squatters (A Seaside Library Pocket Edition #1110)
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner inked name, "Mary Stoddard", front top. Age-toning. Back page, spine creas
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- George Munro's Sons.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- inexpensive subscription, late 19th-early 20th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
Biblio member since 2017
Newport, New Hampshire
About Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her; she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes. No pressure. Hedgehogs do have yearnings. If you should visit by chance or by appointment, enjoy our old New Hampshire farmhouse location alongside the Sugar River and its companion recreation Rail Trail, nearby two historic railroad covered bridges just off Chandlers Mill Road. Feel welcome. -- Lucy G Wells, proprietor.
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- 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....
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