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Stevenson, Robert Louis, Osbourne, Lloyd

THE WRONG BOX

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889

94.00 €

Complete Traveller

(Westport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1889
Place of printing
New York
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Osbourne, Lloyd
Publishers
Charles Scribner's Sons
Keyword
Available Inventory Literature
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover

Description

Faded spot to front boards and with otherwise light rubbing to extremities; Nice early edition. Wikipedia says: "co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which all the benefits go to the last survivor. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries" ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages
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