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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.