Robert Louis Stevenson
by Simpson, E.Blantyre
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: T.N.Foulis, 1906 Hard Cover, 12mo, 69pp + ads. Condition: Very Good. Covers dust-soiled with some wear to corners and a mark to the front cover. Foxing to the fore-edges of the text block visible when the book is closed. ** Illustrated biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by Eve Blantyre Simpson (1855 - 1920), and Edinburgh-born author. Her father, James Y Simpson, was an obstetrician who pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic. ** Contains a description on Stevenson's appearance - his father "begged [him]... to go to his tailor's, for he disapproved of the youth's scruffy, mountbankish appearance". An interesting book for the description of Stevenson's reactions to the world in his travels at at home in Scotland.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8168
- Title
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author
- Simpson, E.Blantyre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- T.N.Foulis
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1906
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....