Robert Chambers Red Republic

Whitelaw, A (editor): THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS (Volume 4) Glasgow Blackie & Son 1833
Near Very Good Five Engravings

Worn but still quite decent. Hinges intact, and maroon-red covers deeply and attractively deeply blindstamped with geometic and floral design. All edges gilt. Contents clean and tight. There are five nicely engraved plates, including a particularly well done one showing the Calton Hill of Edinburgh in even earlier times. There is also an original piece of writing on the site by Robert Chambers. Leading off this volume is a lengthy story by Thomas Aird called "Buy A Broom?" Volume concludes with an author index for all four volumes that comprised the original set. First Edition Red Blindstamped Cloth 12mo, 435pp Incl. Index

[SW: Calton Hill, Robert Chambers, Thomas Aird, Buy A Broom ?]

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Chambers, Robert W. The Red Republic; A Romance of the Communes, London G.P. Putnam's Sons 1922
Very Average

X, 310pp., acknowledgement. Red colour boards with black writing on the front panel and spine. Corners of the book are bumped, rubbed and slightly frayed. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine. The major damage to the book has been insect activity, which has caused loss of colour to the cloth, particularly the spine of the panel and the first 0.25" of the front panel, but there is damaged on all surfaces. Browning and staining to the paper edges. Offset tanning to the endpapers and there is very faint foxing as well. Foxing has occurred as well to the internal pages. Bleeding of the cloth colour has happened to the first few top paper edges. Bottom paper edge has been hand cut, and is slightly creased and soft. Fantasy dealing with pre-Soviet Communism. This book was first published in 1895. Reprint No Jacket Red Cloth 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Science Fiction

[SW: Pre - Soviet Communism -- Fantasy, 19th-Century Fantasy, Political FantasyFiction -- Fantasy 19th Century]

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