Across the Plains

Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Title: Across the Plains
Publication: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892
Edition: First American Edition

Description: First printing. Octavo (19cm). In original red publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; grey coated endpapers; 12 pp of publisher's ads at rear; [x], 317, [1], 12pp. A sturdy copy, with minor dirt and rubbing to cloth, internally clean: Very Good.

12 essays, mainly reprinted from Scribner's Magazine. The titular essay concerns a journey by train from New York to San Francisco; other essays describe visits to San Francisco and France, autobiographical snippets in Scotland, and ideas about religion, ethics, and charity, especially in "Pulvis et Umbra" and "A Christmas Sermon." NCBEL III: 1007. Cf. PRIDEAUX 33.

Seller ID: 54567

Subject: California, Great Britain, Travel & Topography



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