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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/none
- Seller
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San Rafael, California, United States
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About This Item
Beautifully illustrated by renowned artist and illustrator, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Stevenson's poems come alive in this sweet conpendium of poetry. Boards are slighly soiled with some very minor scuffing to edges of cover illustration. Corners bumped. Pencil nae and address on FFEP. Gilt spine titles are still very bright. Hinge is tight. All illustrations have tissue guards with part of a poem printed on them. Lovely illustrated endpapers front and back.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
Synopsis
Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson.From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favorite cousins to beloved mothers.Here is a very special collection to be treasured for ever. First published in 1885, the first printing of A Child's Garden of Verses ran 1000 copies by Longhaus, Green and Co in London. This book was not illustrated until the 1896 edition, published 2 years after Stevenson's death. The collection contains about 65 poems, and many of the poems, including “The Land of Counterpane,” take a positive perspective on Stevenson's own childhood which was plagued by sickness. He dedicated the work to his nurse Alison Cunningham. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) Although he died at just forty four years old and suffered from ill health the majority of his life he managed to travel and write extensively in that short period. His most famous works are Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses . Although Stevenson fell out of the canon for a number of years, today he is one of the most translated authors and is highly celebrated for his stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 559
- Title
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Illustrator
- Jessie Wilcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth with full cover, illustrated pastedown and gilt spine titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 125
- Size
- 7 1/4 x 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- poetry, poems, childhood, family life, children's literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature; First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Town Books of San Anselmo
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About the Seller
Town Books of San Anselmo
Biblio member since 2020
San Rafael, California
About Town Books of San Anselmo
Town Books is run by volunteers for the benefit of the San Anselmo Library, San Anselmo, CA. All titles are donated and go through a thorough accession process to ensure that the books are clean and in a good reading state. Selected titles of rare and vintage books are reserved for our online sales with Biblio.com.
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- Gilt
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