A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated by Charles Robinson
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head
in 1896
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- CHILDRENS
- POETRY AND VERSE (CHILDRENS)
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2127785
2nd.
1896.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Dark green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. B/w text illustrations. 136 pages plus publication list to rear. All edges gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; a few to page margins.
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