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THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS.
de Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near fine
- Librería
-
Fort Bragg, California, United States
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Near fine. Original dark blue beveled cloth with spine title in gilt, octavo (5.5 x 7.75 inches), 254pp. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece. Some occasional spotting, but near fine
The charming account of Stevenson's sojourn on the slopes of Mount St. Helena at the head of the Napa Valley, during the summer of 1880. Prideaux notes that "The earliest issues of this book have inserted at the end a catalogue. . . dated October 1883, but some copies have a catalogue dated November 1887, showing that the first edition of the book was still in print so late as that year." This copy with no catalogue. The binding here is not described in Prideaux but is presumed to be a "remainder" binding. Cowan p. 615; Prideaux 9; Zamorano 80 #71.
The charming account of Stevenson's sojourn on the slopes of Mount St. Helena at the head of the Napa Valley, during the summer of 1880. Prideaux notes that "The earliest issues of this book have inserted at the end a catalogue. . . dated October 1883, but some copies have a catalogue dated November 1887, showing that the first edition of the book was still in print so late as that year." This copy with no catalogue. The binding here is not described in Prideaux but is presumed to be a "remainder" binding. Cowan p. 615; Prideaux 9; Zamorano 80 #71.
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
- Chanticleer Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21207
- Título
- THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS.
- Autor
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition, second issue
- Editorial
- Chatto and Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1883
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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