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n/a (illustrator). Very Good + Edition Not Specified Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" No DJ 294pp Red cloth covers with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Spine is faded. Illustrated. Previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper. none.
Published by T.N. Foulis, 1906
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Some fading, reading wear. Pages clean.
Published by T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1912
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Pages are yellowing. Spine is cracking at title page. Spine has some light wear around edges.
Published by T N Foulis, 1912
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages and text block edges with with moderate cracking to gutters exposing netting; but pages remain attached. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913
Seller: Avalon Books, Stockton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Color frontis. Many plates, a few in color. Good-sized chip missing from bottom edge of jacket's cover. First American edition.
Condition: VG/VG. December 1912 Foulis H/B Edition. No jacket. Rough cut pages. Initials and year (1917) inside.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1331766842ISBN 13: 9781331766841
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
Book
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1913). (1913)., 1913
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1913). (1913). Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt.; t.e.g. The binding is rubbed. The covers are bumped with a stain to the rear cover. [x] & 213 pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece & 30 tipped-in plates, including facsimiles, in B&W & color. 1 plate is detached from its mount; the frontispiece & a few other plates are nearly detached. There is scattered foxing & occasional staining. Good. First edition.A book about the autobiographical sources of Stevenson's fiction.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Third Edition. Very good condition book, clean and tight. [1206].
Published by Scribner's, (1913)., 1913
Seller: D. Richards, Bookman, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. Brown cloth. 213pp. Tipped-in illustrations. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by T N FOULIS 1912, 1912
Seller: Leaf Ends, Stocksfield, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition hardback no dustwrapper very good uncut page edges, tan linen type covers with gilt lettering, tissue guarded portrait frontispiece and other illustrations, occasional fox spotting, clean, tight, bright copy.
Published by T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh, 1908
Seller: Benson's Antiquarian Books, Dunblane, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard back in good condition, cloth spine with paper covered boards. Minor marking and rubbing to covers. Inscription on front end paper, browning to end papers, a few minor markings internally but otherwise clean. Slight loosening at bottom of frontispiece, which is however secure. Binding is good and secure. 69 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1898
Seller: Mr Mac Books (Ranald McDonald) P.B.F.A., Thornhill, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback Rubbed cloth covers with wear at spine ends. Browned and foxed end papers. Owners name on front end paper. Sprinkling of foxing on a few pages. 326 pages Wt 0.6 Kg Good.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, GB, 1914
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Red cloth, gilt. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT text edges browned / marked in places. End papers a bit browned. Front cover slightly concave and spine a little faded.
Published by Charles Scriber's Sons, 1913
Seller: Peace of Mind Bookstore, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Brown boards w/ gold printing; deckled pp; 213 pp; Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Very good Chipped cloth spine in tact but damged, cracked hinge, minor writing on front inside panel, clean text with several phot plates, mild discoloring on a few text margins, gold stamped cloth covers are worn on corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton. Ltd., London, England, 1914
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Brilliant biography of the author's birth-early adult life, covering family, school, friends, & other early influences. In 294 pages, with tipped in photographic illustrations throughout, each with a protective tissue overlay (one of these is half missing; others completely intact). Page following table of contents page (where a list of illustrations would normally appear) is missing/sliced out, or else this is just a manufacturing defect? A FIRST EDITION from 1914 (NOT a modern reprint) this hardcover has bright red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering & design to front & spine. Condition is solidly VG: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages very modestly tanned, commensurate with age. No DJ, as issued. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.
Published by T. N. Foulis., London & Edinburgh., 1912
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, Sheffield, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 213pp, colour tipped in portrait frontispiece, tipped in plates. Original brown buckram cloth with gilt titles. A clean & bright copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 1331328454ISBN 13: 9781331328452
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
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Published by T.N.Foulis, Edinburgh, 1906
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 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.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 3rd. (UK) Stated 3rd edition.(The book originally appearred in 1898). Ownership stamp to endpaper and to inside fron cover, pages clean, a touch of rubbing to cover cloth, lower cover corners bumped, fine paper splits to hinges but holding, the plates facing 176 and 224 and its tissue paper are missing or damaged, Good only used copy, no dust jacket. possibly as published. Marron cloth with gold titles,294pp, tissue-protected frontis portrait of Stevenson, and 20 tissue-protected plates of which two are damaged (torn with portions missing). The illustrations are: 1. frontis portrait of RLS, 2. The Manse 3. Howard Place (facing page 16), 4. Stevenson and his father (p32), 5. Stevenson's mother (48), 6. Heriot Row (64), 7. Rev Lewis Balfour (80), 8. Edinburgh High School (96), 9. RLS (112), 10. Swanton Cottage (128), 11. Allison Cunningham (144), 12. Pentland Hils (160), 13. RLS (`176) missing, 14. Swanston (1920, 15. Calton Hill (208), 16. Edingburgh Academy (224) damaged, 17. The Castle (240), 18. Edinburgh University (256), 19. RLS Advocate (272), 20. Parliament Hall (276), 21. Corstorphine Hill (284). This is a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, an account of his parentage and early life in Edinburgh, where he trained a a lawyer. Eve Blantyre Simpson was a Scottish writer who died in 1920. Simpson toured as an author in the United States and Canada in 1899. (2.3 JM HOZ 401/5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Published by T. N. FOULIS, LONDON & EDINBURGH, 1912
Seller: Nemona Collectables, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BROWN CLOTH.
Publication Date: 1912
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . T N Foulis, 1s ed, illus with plates, clean tight copy, feint age toning to edges, rough cut pages, Professional booksellers since 1981.
London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. 20,5x16 cm. Vi, (1, 1 blank), 293, (1) pp. + 21 tipped-in plates, mainly photographic ones. Publisher's red cloth, no dustjacket. Spine ends and corners are a bit bumped. Boards, the top and fore-edges are slightly soiled. Contents are clean and bright.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1898
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 2nd edition. 8vo. Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and cover and gilt top edge. 326 pp. plus ads Minor shelf wear. Hinges overopened. Bookplate on front free endpaper. This is an antique biography of Stevenson, focusing on his upbringing in Edinburgh which informed much of his work. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1898
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 2nd edition. 8vo. Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and cover and gilt top edge. 326 pp. plus ads Minor shelf wear. Rubbing to gilt. Hinges overopened. Bookplate on front free endpaper. This is an antique biography of Stevenson, focusing on his upbringing in Edinburgh which informed much of his work. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton London 1913, 1913
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
294pp. 8vo Illustrated with tipped-in black and white plates with tissue guards Gilt decorated red cloth Spine and cover edges sunned else Near Fine/no dj.
Published by T.N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1912
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good in original cloth. Complete with all illustrated plates intact. Smallish discoloration to beige cloth along spine. Gilt titles. Sound hinges. No markings, no bookplate.
Published by T.N. Foulis, London, 1912
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 213pages.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1898
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Blown cloth with gilt titles. Some handling wear and marks including rubbed hinges, edges and corners. Cracked internal spine hinges. Detached front end paper, mostly clean inside. A good reading copy.