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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the top corner of the lower board. A little ag
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the top corner of the lower board. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Gift inscription to the first blank. Front hinge cracked. Pages a touch age-toned with scattered spotting, more so to the start and end. . Charles Robinson. Hardback. Physically 7¾” x 5” (0.7 kg); 136pp; Illustrated by Charles Robinson; Includes: Line drawings; Black & white plates; Frontispiece portrait; Chapter headpieces; Title page vignette; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191866|| Condition:
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
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 191866
- Title
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Illustrator
- Charles Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the top corner of the lower board. A little ag
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- children's poems, scottish poems, children's poetry, scottish poets, scottish poetry, books by robert louis stevenson, charles robinson
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