A Child's Garden Of Verse. No. 47 In The Children's Illustrated Classics Series.
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Decorated Cloth Covers And Decorated Endpapers, Xii + 117 Pages, Plus [4] Of Publishers Ads. A Bright Book, Soundly Bound But The Front Hinge Is A Little Wobbly, Otherwise Unmarked And Minor Shelf-Wear Only. Dustjacket Is Very Worn, With Loss. Not Ex Library.
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Publisher: Dent &...
Date: 1964
Format: Hardcover
Decorated Cloth Covers And Decorated Endpapers, Xii + 117 Pages, Plus [4] Of Publishers Ads. A Bright Book, Soundly Bound But The Front Hinge Is A Little Wobbly, Otherwise Unmarked And Minor Shelf-Wear Only. Dustjacket Is Very Worn, With Loss. Not Ex Library.
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A child's garden of verse (The Editha series for little girls)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
In mustard cloth with color pictorial label to upper cover, 12mo, 109pp. (light shelfwear, soiling and darkening to cloth, toning to page edges). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Publisher: H. M....
Format: Hardcover
In mustard cloth with color pictorial label to upper cover, 12mo, 109pp. (light shelfwear, soiling and darkening to cloth, toning to page edges). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. All corners rubbed with cloth frayed. Prior owner's name. Illustrated by Eulalie. Blue cloth binding with color past on. Illustrated endpapers. 13" tall; 89 p. See photos
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Publisher: Platt and...
Date: 1929
Format: Hardcover
Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. All corners rubbed with cloth frayed. Prior owner's name. Illustrated by Eulalie. Blue cloth binding with color past on. Illustrated endpapers. 13" tall; 89 p. See photos
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Eulalie
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Publisher: The Platt...
Date: 1929
Format: Hardcover
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Eulalie
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Publisher: The Platt...
Date: 1929
Format: Hardcover
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Child's Garden of Verses
by (Illustrator), Robert Louis Stevenson; Juanita C. Bennett
Whitman Publishing Co. 1932 First Edition NAP Cardboard showing through paper on edges, spine reinforced with matching blue bk-tape, front hinge starting to loosen at one end, rear hinge solid sewn binding, color illustrated end papers, pos penned inside cover, pages faintly tanned, color illustrated pages. Binding overextended ever-so-slightly at "Picture-books in Winter" and "Rain" (near center of binding). Boards lightly rubbing and soiled.
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Publisher: Whitman Publishing...
Date: 1932
Format: Hardcover
Whitman Publishing Co. 1932 First Edition NAP Cardboard showing through paper on edges, spine reinforced with matching blue bk-tape, front hinge starting to loosen at one end, rear hinge solid sewn binding, color illustrated end papers, pos penned inside cover, pages faintly tanned, color illustrated pages. Binding overextended ever-so-slightly at "Picture-books in Winter" and "Rain" (near center of binding). Boards lightly rubbing and soiled.
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A Child's Garden of Verses. Pictures By Peter Mabie
by [Mabie]. Stevenson, Robert Louis
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson's best children's poems.
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Publisher: John Martin's...
Date: 1945
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson's best children's poems.
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
With the Scribner's monogram on the copyright page but a latter date on the title page. Original black gilt cloth with pictorial pastedown and illustrated endpapers. All color plates present. Cover color a bit dull but spine gilt bright. A clean, unmarked, tight copy, scarce in this condition.
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Publisher: Charles Scribner's...
Date: 1905
Format: Hardcover
With the Scribner's monogram on the copyright page but a latter date on the title page. Original black gilt cloth with pictorial pastedown and illustrated endpapers. All color plates present. Cover color a bit dull but spine gilt bright. A clean, unmarked, tight copy, scarce in this condition.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Eulalie
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Publisher: The Platt...
Date: 1929
Format: Hardcover
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Eulalie
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Publisher: The Platt...
Date: 1929
Format: Hardcover
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1929. First edition with the Eulalie illustrations, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. Classic poems for children, illustrated with eleven full color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorative endpapers, 88 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities and especially at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, gift notation neatly written on half-title, no other markings. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Child's Garden of Verses
by (Illustrator), Robert Louis Stevenson; Juanita C. Bennett
Whitman Publishing Co. 1932 First Edition NAP Cardboard showing through paper on edges, spine reinforced with matching blue bk-tape, front hinge starting to loosen at one end, rear hinge solid sewn binding, color illustrated end papers, pos penned inside cover, pages faintly tanned, color illustrated pages. Binding overextended ever-so-slightly at "Picture-books in Winter" and "Rain" (near center of binding). Boards lightly rubbing and soiled.
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Publisher: Whitman Publishing...
Date: 1932
Format: Hardcover
Whitman Publishing Co. 1932 First Edition NAP Cardboard showing through paper on edges, spine reinforced with matching blue bk-tape, front hinge starting to loosen at one end, rear hinge solid sewn binding, color illustrated end papers, pos penned inside cover, pages faintly tanned, color illustrated pages. Binding overextended ever-so-slightly at "Picture-books in Winter" and "Rain" (near center of binding). Boards lightly rubbing and soiled.
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Child's Garden of Verse, A.
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Gilt-lettered, decorated red cloth, 8vo,191 pp., color plates. COvers rubbed, edgeworn, with minor stains, pages tanned, previous owner name.
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Publisher: Lippincott, Philadelphia
Date: 1919
Format: Hardcover
Gilt-lettered, decorated red cloth, 8vo,191 pp., color plates. COvers rubbed, edgeworn, with minor stains, pages tanned, previous owner name.
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A Child's Garden of Verses. Pictures By Peter Mabie
by [Mabie]. Stevenson, Robert Louis
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson's best children's poems.
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Publisher: John Martin's...
Date: 1945
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson's best children's poems.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson; Henriette Willebeek Le Mair [Illustrator]
Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good copy with clean pages. First edition. 1 stain on back cover. Letter ink stamp on bottom edge of text box.
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Publisher: Philomel
Date: 1991-03-14
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399218187
Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good copy with clean pages. First edition. 1 stain on back cover. Letter ink stamp on bottom edge of text box.
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
1930s edition of the popular Children's Classic superbly illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair. 71pp, illustrated color plates. This copy, in above average condition, is sadly lacking a single plate [at p20]. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. Minor wear to tips only. Weight, 600g. Size: Oblong Quarto
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Publisher: George G....
Date: 1931
Format: Hardcover
1930s edition of the popular Children's Classic superbly illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair. 71pp, illustrated color plates. This copy, in above average condition, is sadly lacking a single plate [at p20]. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. Minor wear to tips only. Weight, 600g. Size: Oblong Quarto
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Songs With Music From 'a Child's Garden of Verses'
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Used-Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine. Illus by Margaret Tarrant. Gift inscription; tiny patch of surface loss on front pastedown; internally clean, but boards a little soiled & worn. Undated and with no edition stated; however, the inscription is dated Xmas 1915, so this is almost certainly the First edition.
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Publisher: T.C. &...
Date: 1915
Used-Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine. Illus by Margaret Tarrant. Gift inscription; tiny patch of surface loss on front pastedown; internally clean, but boards a little soiled & worn. Undated and with no edition stated; however, the inscription is dated Xmas 1915, so this is almost certainly the First edition.
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Xii pp + 156 pages with 8 colour plates and line drawings in black throughout all by Charles Robinson. oatmeal colour cloth embossed in green, blue and gilt on both top board and spine, again by C.R. minor rubbing most of the cloth still bright as is the spine, with this particularly bright. art-nouveau style illustrations and also endpapers, some foxing throughout and also to pictorial endpapers, the colour plates are free of any foxing. Half title and all edges uncut, inscription on ffep, "Dec 30th 1913. To Edith from Ralph with the best of wishes for the New Year. 1914". Good+ to Very Good+
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Publisher: John Lane,...
Date: 1912
Format: Hardcover
Xii pp + 156 pages with 8 colour plates and line drawings in black throughout all by Charles Robinson. oatmeal colour cloth embossed in green, blue and gilt on both top board and spine, again by C.R. minor rubbing most of the cloth still bright as is the spine, with this particularly bright. art-nouveau style illustrations and also endpapers, some foxing throughout and also to pictorial endpapers, the colour plates are free of any foxing. Half title and all edges uncut, inscription on ffep, "Dec 30th 1913. To Edith from Ralph with the best of wishes for the New Year. 1914". Good+ to Very Good+
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Songs With Music From 'a Child's Garden of Verses'
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Used-Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine. Illus by Margaret Tarrant. Gift inscription; tiny patch of surface loss on front pastedown; internally clean, but boards a little soiled & worn. Undated and with no edition stated; however, the inscription is dated Xmas 1915, so this is almost certainly the First edition.
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Publisher: T.C. &...
Date: 1915
Used-Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine. Illus by Margaret Tarrant. Gift inscription; tiny patch of surface loss on front pastedown; internally clean, but boards a little soiled & worn. Undated and with no edition stated; however, the inscription is dated Xmas 1915, so this is almost certainly the First edition.
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Octavo, original cream cloth boards decorated in green, black, and gilt, 9 colour plates by Charles Robinson including frontis and dec title page, many b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 152, iv, plus publisher's catalogue, some light foxing to earlier pages, the front board lightly rubbed with some loss. Very good condition. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection of poetry for children, beautifully illustrated throughout. This 1908 edition the first with colour plates.
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Publisher: John Lane,...
Date: 1908
Format: Hardcover
Octavo, original cream cloth boards decorated in green, black, and gilt, 9 colour plates by Charles Robinson including frontis and dec title page, many b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 152, iv, plus publisher's catalogue, some light foxing to earlier pages, the front board lightly rubbed with some loss. Very good condition. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection of poetry for children, beautifully illustrated throughout. This 1908 edition the first with colour plates.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson; Henriette Willebeek Le Mair [Illustrator]
Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good copy with clean pages. First edition. 1 stain on back cover. Letter ink stamp on bottom edge of text box.
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Publisher: Philomel
Date: 1991-03-14
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399218187
Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good copy with clean pages. First edition. 1 stain on back cover. Letter ink stamp on bottom edge of text box.
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Good condition for it's advanced age. There are some pictures of the author glued in the FEP, deckle edge papers, several ownership marks on the end papers and title page. Gold on the covers are still bright, some edge wear, and rubbing on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Publisher: Charles Scribner,...
Date: 1895
Format: Hardcover
Good condition for it's advanced age. There are some pictures of the author glued in the FEP, deckle edge papers, several ownership marks on the end papers and title page. Gold on the covers are still bright, some edge wear, and rubbing on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
fine copy in the original green cloth, illustrated by the great Tasha Tudor and signed by her best wishes on the half title in a very good dust jacket.
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Publisher: Henry Z....
Date: 1947
Format: Hardcover
fine copy in the original green cloth, illustrated by the great Tasha Tudor and signed by her best wishes on the half title in a very good dust jacket.
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A Childs Garden Of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A very lovely copy bound in the publishers dark green buckrum with gilt titles on the slightly faded spine, and an elaborate and amusing gilt embelishment on the front board with a small child holding a bucket with trailing flowers surrounding heragain on the back board a little girl is digging with a spade and a long plant above her. Gilt edges all around , book plate of two angels around the name James Conolly of Belfast on the front pastedown and in neat pen the name Jennie Conolly on the first end paper. A great many very charming illustrations in black and white by Robinson.
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Publisher: JOHN LANE,...
Date: 1896
Format: Hardcover
A very lovely copy bound in the publishers dark green buckrum with gilt titles on the slightly faded spine, and an elaborate and amusing gilt embelishment on the front board with a small child holding a bucket with trailing flowers surrounding heragain on the back board a little girl is digging with a spade and a long plant above her. Gilt edges all around , book plate of two angels around the name James Conolly of Belfast on the front pastedown and in neat pen the name Jennie Conolly on the first end paper. A great many very charming illustrations in black and white by Robinson.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
12mo. [2], x, 101, [3] pp. Blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, embossed gilt printer's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, with the lettering bearing an apostrophe shaped like a "7, " t.e.g., fore-edges uncut (minor rubbing & edgewear to spine, slight bumping to corners, minor darkening of the cloth), still a VG clean copy. First edition, 1st state, without the listing of "Two Series" below "New Arabian Nights, " on the author's list facing the half-title. This beloved anthology of sixty-six poems has been reprinted and illustrated in many different formats, but the original on wonderful paper still retains a freshness and intimacy of a master poet and author. Princeton, 20A, copy 3; Prideaux, pp. 35-39; Beinecke, 193.
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Publisher: Longmans, Green,...
Date: 1885
12mo. [2], x, 101, [3] pp. Blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, embossed gilt printer's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, with the lettering bearing an apostrophe shaped like a "7, " t.e.g., fore-edges uncut (minor rubbing & edgewear to spine, slight bumping to corners, minor darkening of the cloth), still a VG clean copy. First edition, 1st state, without the listing of "Two Series" below "New Arabian Nights, " on the author's list facing the half-title. This beloved anthology of sixty-six poems has been reprinted and illustrated in many different formats, but the original on wonderful paper still retains a freshness and intimacy of a master poet and author. Princeton, 20A, copy 3; Prideaux, pp. 35-39; Beinecke, 193.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
12mo. [2], x, 101, [3] pp. Blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, embossed gilt printer's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, with the lettering bearing an apostrophe shaped like a "7, " t.e.g., fore-edges uncut (minor rubbing & edgewear to spine, slight bumping to corners, minor darkening of the cloth), still a VG clean copy. First edition, 1st state, without the listing of "Two Series" below "New Arabian Nights, " on the author's list facing the half-title. This beloved anthology of sixty-six poems has been reprinted and illustrated in many different formats, but the original on wonderful paper still retains a freshness and intimacy of a master poet and author. Princeton, 20A, copy 3; Prideaux, pp. 35-39; Beinecke, 193.
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Publisher: Longmans, Green,...
Date: 1885
12mo. [2], x, 101, [3] pp. Blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, embossed gilt printer's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, with the lettering bearing an apostrophe shaped like a "7, " t.e.g., fore-edges uncut (minor rubbing & edgewear to spine, slight bumping to corners, minor darkening of the cloth), still a VG clean copy. First edition, 1st state, without the listing of "Two Series" below "New Arabian Nights, " on the author's list facing the half-title. This beloved anthology of sixty-six poems has been reprinted and illustrated in many different formats, but the original on wonderful paper still retains a freshness and intimacy of a master poet and author. Princeton, 20A, copy 3; Prideaux, pp. 35-39; Beinecke, 193.
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A Child’ S Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.
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Publisher: Longmans, Green,...
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.
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A Child’ S Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Publisher: Longmans, Green,...
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.
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