A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
in 1931
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 379828
1st.
1931.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large oblong format. Brown cloth spine, brown pictorial boards. Pretty colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few light marks to covers. Small closed tears to margins of two plates. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins (affecting a couple of plates - pictures remain bright). Foxing to page edges. A nice copy of a scarce edition.
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 738815
1st.
1931.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large oblong format. Brown cloth spine, brown pictorial boards. Pretty colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Cover edges very very slightly grubby. Large but light foxspots throughout. One plate was detached, now reinserted but with slightly ragged edges. A nice copy of the first edition.
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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