Author: BLAND, HENRY MEADE
Title: Stevenson's California
Description: San Jose, CA: The Pacific Short Story Club, 1924. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good condition and has self-wrappers (cardboard covers with a semi-attached dust jacket). The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is noticeable toning to the spine joints, and all edges of the book covers. The book covers have some beginning spotting and foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. The front innner hinge has started to crack. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. There is also a second gift notation on the front endpaper as well. "Fanny and Robert were married in May 1880. She was 40; he was 29. He said that he was "a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem of mortality than a bridegroom." He travelled with his new wife and her son Lloyd north of San Francisco to Napa Valley and spent a summer honeymoon at an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena (today designated Robert Louis Stevenson State Park). He wrote about this experience in The Silverado Squatters. He met Charles Warren Stoddard, co-editor of the Overland Monthly and author of South Sea Idylls, who urged Stevenson to travel to the South Pacific, an idea which returned to him many years later. In August 1880, he sailed with Fanny and Lloyd from New York to Britain and found his parents and his friend Sidney Colvin on the wharf at Liverpool, happy to see him return home. Gradually, his wife was able to patch up differences between father and son and make herself a part of the family through her charm and wit. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good .
Keywords: Biography Henry Meade Bland Robert Louis Stevenson Authors Author Biography Californiana
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Title: Stevenson's California
Description: San Jose, CA: The Pacific Short Story Club, 1924. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good condition and has self-wrappers (cardboard covers with a semi-attached dust jacket). The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is noticeable toning to the spine joints, and all edges of the book covers. The book covers have some beginning spotting and foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. The front innner hinge has started to crack. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. There is also a second gift notation on the front endpaper as well. "Fanny and Robert were married in May 1880. She was 40; he was 29. He said that he was "a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem of mortality than a bridegroom." He travelled with his new wife and her son Lloyd north of San Francisco to Napa Valley and spent a summer honeymoon at an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena (today designated Robert Louis Stevenson State Park). He wrote about this experience in The Silverado Squatters. He met Charles Warren Stoddard, co-editor of the Overland Monthly and author of South Sea Idylls, who urged Stevenson to travel to the South Pacific, an idea which returned to him many years later. In August 1880, he sailed with Fanny and Lloyd from New York to Britain and found his parents and his friend Sidney Colvin on the wharf at Liverpool, happy to see him return home. Gradually, his wife was able to patch up differences between father and son and make herself a part of the family through her charm and wit. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good .
Keywords: Biography Henry Meade Bland Robert Louis Stevenson Authors Author Biography Californiana
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 44977
- Book number: 44977
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