A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby
Published by Chatto & Windus
in 1908
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1814763
1st.
1908.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Boards a little marked but gilt to front still bright. Cloth backstrip has been re-glued directly to spine, loss to top & tail, touched up with blue ink to sides. Rear hinge pulled. A few marks to contents. A few scattered foxspots. One plate has a corner crease.
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1506917
1st.
1908.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine browned with a few white marks. A few marks to covers. Front joint cracked. Pen inscription to verso of front endpaper and school plate to front pastedown. 4" tear to page 115/6 and tear to top edge of 117/8, both repaired with clear tape which is now yellowed. Endpapers browned. Some foxing to text block and page edges.
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1404868
1st.
1908.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine bumped and browned. Cloth split at top. Corners bumped and worn. Top of boards browned. Inscription in ink to prelim. Endpapers browned. Stitching to top of one gathering of pages undone. Some foxing and light fingering otherwise contents generally clean.
Front cover
Contents
- To Alison Cunningham from Her Boy
- Bed In Summer
- A Thought
- At The Sea Side
- Young Night Thought
- Whole Duty of Children
- Rain
- Pirate Story
- Foreign Lands
- Windy Nights
- Travel
- Singing
- Looking Forward
- A Good Play
- Where Go The Boats
- Auntie's Skirts
- The Land of Counterpane
- The Land of Nod
- My Shadow
- System
- A Good Boy
- Escape at Bedtime
- Marching Song
- The Cow
- Happy Thought
- The Wind
- Keepsake Mill
- Good and Bad Children
- Foreign Children
- The Sun Travels
- The Lamplighter
- My Bed is A Boat
- The Moon
- The Swing
- Time to Rise
- Looking Glass River
- Fairy Bread
- From a Railway Carriage
- Winter Time
- The Hayloft
- Farewell to the Farm
- Northwest Passage - 1, Good Night, 2, Shadow March, 3, In Port
- THE CHILD ALONE
- The Unseen Playmate
- My Ship and I
- My Kingdom
- Picture Books in Winter
- My Treasures
- Block City
- The Land of Story Books
- Armies in the Fire
- The Little Land
- GARDEN DAYS
- Night and Day
- Nest Eggs
- The Flowers
- Summer Sun
- The Dumb Soldier
- Autumn Fires
- The Gardener
- Historical Associations
- ENVOYS
- To Willie and Henrietta
- To My Mother
- To Auntie
- To Minnie
- To My Name Child
- To Any Bearer