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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.
Ref: BIOG 8168
$62.00