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Lot 121
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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longman's, Green and Company, 1885.
  • Paper, ink, leather
8v (158 x 101 mm). Original gilt-stamped blue cloth; rear end leaves offset; very minor rubbing at spine ends and tips of corners. 

Literature

Prideaux 14; Beinecke 192

Catalogue Note

first edition, first issue of this much reprinted collection of verse in which classic childhood poems such as 'The Land of Counterpane', 'The Land of Nod', 'My Shadow', 'Uncle Sparky', and 'My Bed is a Boat' first appear.