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THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
de Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. Pp. [viii]+254, frontispiece, the title page printed in red & black; cr. 8vo; school prize binding in half red calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, red cloth boards with gilt crest and motto of Winchester College at centre of upper board, edges of boards lightly rubbed, fore-corners grazed, the spine slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers, bookplate of Frederick Percival Robinson on upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed, occasional faint soiling; Chatto & Windus, London, 1901. *First published in 1883.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
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- 167689
- Título
- THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
- Autor
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Usado
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- 1
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1901
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
