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Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorative Cloth Hard Back. Condition: Good. Robinson, Charles Robinson (illustrator). First Edition. xvi + 153 pages + 3 with small b/w illustrations + 8 pages of adverts. Decorative binding colour & gilt embossed illustration/title to front & spine, good condition, some ageing. Contents good, some minor foxing, 8 colour plates + colour illustrated Title page + b/w illustrations throughout + colour illustrated endpapers front and/rear. Unusual page numbering, the 153 pages include colour illustrations, blank rears and a few other blank pages, also the 16/xvi pages before are not numbered and include an illustrated colour plate and illustrated colour title page and 6 blank pages. Colour pictorial art nouveau style binding and endpapers. First Large Edition and with colour plates, except for the rare early Limited editions with black & white illustrations. Size: 16 x 23cm Approx
Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: 16 x 23cm oatmeal coloured cloth with pictorial image and gilt titles to the front and spine. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Art Nouveau endpapers, (xii), 152 (4)pp, (8) publisher's catalogue with 9 colour plates including frontispiece and title page. There are over 100 black and white illustrations by Charles Robinson, both full page and within the text. A little light marking to the rear board and a hint of cockling. A hint of toning to the spine and light rubbing to the front board and spine tips. The four corners are a little bruised. The binding is firm and square. Internally there is some toning to the endpapers and the uncut edges but otherwise the book is very clean and without name, inscription or bookplate. All in all a very good copy of this charmingly illustrated gift edition and the first book illustrated by Charles Robinson. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.77 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original cream cloth boards decorated in green, black, and gilt, 9 colour plates by Charles Robinson including frontis and dec title page, many b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 152, iv, plus publisher's catalogue, some light foxing to earlier pages, the front board lightly rubbed with some loss. Very good condition. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection of poetry for children, beautifully illustrated throughout. This 1908 edition the first with colour plates.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. John Lane, The Bodley Head London (1908), 1908.
Price: US$122.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy large octavo 156pp., colour frontis., colour plates, Undated, but appears to be the first edition. Light rubbing to boards o/w a nice copy. PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stevenson Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. John Lane, 1908.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. PayPal accepted. Frontispiece, title page and 7 other full page colour illustrations, all as listed. Colour line endpapers front and back. Original gilt decorated covers very slightly marked at spine. Odd spotting in places throughout especially on ends. A very attractive book.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
STEVENSON (Robert Louis).. A Child's Garden of Verses.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1908.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bookplate of Isobel Salmon.Illustrated throughout by Charles Robinson, plus eight colour plates and title page with decorative border. Large 8vo. [230 x 158 x 25 mm]. [xvi], 153, [11] pp. Bound in publisher's beige pictorial cloth, blocked and lettered in green, blue and gilt to the front covers and spine, pictorial endleaves, top edge dyed green, others untrimmed. (Cloth slightly worn, some damage to the base of spine and covers, foxing to extremities). Bookplate of Isobel Salmon.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. [10] + 152 + [4] pp. + [8] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original cloth, gilt, decorated with gilt and green pictorial blocks. Deckled edges. Some wear to extremities and browning of endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 9 colour plates, including frontispiece and title page and by black and white drawings in text. Pictorial endpapers. Stevenson's collection of sixty four poems for children, first appeared under the title, Penny Whistles, in 1885. Numerous later Illustrated editions followed and this version was illustrated by Charles Robinson (1870-1937). A prolific book illustrator, Robinson had first illustrated the title in 1895 in black and white and it was also the first full book he illustrated. This 1908 edition, however, was the first with his colour plates. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS POETRY CHILDREN'S POETRY ILLUSTRATED 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, UK, 1908.
Price: US$207.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ' To Allison Cunningham. From Her Boy' poem on Dedication p. plus 52 poems over 4 themes:' Bed in Summer' . . .; The Child Alone; Garden Days; Envoys. List of Coloured Illustrations (9 of the first coloured by Robinson used in this 1908 edition). 156 pp. plus eight pp. of The Bodley Head offerings. Cream coloured boards have gilt/coloured text and illustrations on spine and front panel, top edge gilt. Darkened spine ends are lightly worn, top front corner is bumped, fore and bottom edges are rough cut, light foxing throughout, fo bookplate 2nd fep, illustration p. 73 starting, ow book is tight and square. Still full of childhood magic! Bookseller's Inventory # 221114.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Price: US$213.85 + shipping
Description: London; John Lane, The Bodley Head. [1908]. 8vo.; publisher's taupe pictorial cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, Art Nouveau pictorial endpapers in colour; pp. [xiv], 3-152 + [iv] + [viii], adverts.; with pictorial title-page, frontispiece, and 7 other fine and delicate coloured plates together with line drawings throughout by Robinson; a beautiful and exceptionally bright copy, externally fine and fresh, internally also unusually clean and attractive with a few fox-spots to endpapers at inner gutter and one or two prelims, with a neat and early gift inscription, dated 1912, to front blank but otherwise bright, without signs of handling. First colour-illustrated edition by Charles Robinson with the top edges gilded and the pagination error (page 7 numbered 13 and 13 numbered 7, with no loss of text, continuity, or integrity). Charles Robinson was the first artist to turn his hand to illustrating this classic children's book. His first treatment of it, with wonderful Art Nouveau illustrations throughout in sinuous line, was published in 1896 (see above).
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom