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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Florence Edith Storer
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Lightly worn copy of this children's classic from 1913, this edition with the illustrations by Storer. Includes eight full color plates and nine in black and white, as well as additional black and white illustrations throughout the text. Green pictorial cloth printed in pink and lighter green, 116 pages. Covers heavily rubbed with only the light pink areas readily discernible, good hinges (possibly rebound in same covers), tight text block, pages generally very clean with a couple of minor instances of finger soil in the margins, three leaves with old tape repairs in the outer margins, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027365
- Title
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. Illustrated By Florence Edith Storer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS COLOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS NURSERY RHYMES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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