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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby

Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st. 1908

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.

Stock no. 1506917

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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

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