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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Parent's gift inscription on ffep, dated Sept. '45, otherwise textlock very clean and tight; Beautifully clean and tight red cloth binding with a large front cover pastedown; Binding is very lightly edge rubbed; Dust jacket worn and scuffed along the edges and at the spine tips and corners; The jacket has a couple of closed edge tears with associated creases, an old tape repair along the front fore edge, but is generally clean and bright; 111p.; Reprinted with permission from The Limited Editions Club. Size: 4to - Over 9 " -12" Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DESCRIPTION: This illustrated copy of Child's Garden of Verses has been written by Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850 - 1894) a Scottish novelist, poet and writer. He is well known for "Treasure Island", " Kidnapped", and also "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". * Inserted at the front of this Volume is a copy of the Sandglass, # IIG, a four page folded pamphlet from the Heritage Press. * The dust jacket has essentially the same scene as the front and rear endpapers. There are 18 colored illustrations and 56 black & white illustrations. * The contents include the introduction, and four main areas of poetry such as:(#1.) A Child's Garden of Verses, (#2.) The Child Alone, and (#3.) Garden Days, (#4.) Envoys. * This book does not have a slip case. * The special contents of this edition are copyright 1944, by The Limited Editions Club from whom permission has been obtained by the heritage press for this edition. * This dustjacket will be protected with a Brodart archival plastic sleeve. * CONDITION: I think that this book is in very good condition with minor surface wear on the covers and dust jacket. The spine for the dustjacket is slightly darker than the rest of the dustjacket and the photograph of the book shows bumped corners at the top.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Bismarck, ND, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . #536 of 1500 copies 4to, hardcover. Vg+ condition. Quarter leather over decorative boards. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no writing or marking. Original clamshell box intact. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Limited Edition Club, 1944.
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Introduction by William Rose Benet. 386 of 1100 copies, illustrated and signed by Roger Duvoisin. Large, heavy book, smooth black leather spine badly scuffed with surface tears and nicks, beautiful heavy boards with pattern of small white and pink spots laced with raised lacy blue criss-crossing lines, color-illustrations inside covers and adjacent end papers of children, animals and people, 112 heavy pages, profusely illustrated, many in vivid color. Despite bad scuffing to leather spine, gilt lettering is still bright. Fair.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. Limited Editions Club, [New York], 1944.
Price: US$156.30 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-1/8") rebound in half blue morocco leather and blue buckram sides. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin with water-colors hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley. Introduction by William Rose Benet. Copy #525 of 1100 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more charming books of the press and one of its smallest limitations. Contents clean and fresh, binding just about Fine with slightly bumped lower corners
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. The Limited Editions Club, N/P, 1944.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 141 of a limited edition of 1100 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. Dark brown leather over spine shows a little rubbing near ends. Lovely textured paper over boards. Volume remains tight and is otherwise clean and intact. Housed in original clamshell case what is a little faded over spine edge and upper edge. Case remains solid and otherwise clean. Lacking publisher's newsletter.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Child's Garden of Verses. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Handmade patterned paper over boards with gilt-titled leather spine, small nick to leather else fine; clamshell case with light wear and sunning along edges and spine. A wonderful illustrated edition of Stevenson's classic juvenile poetry. Illustrations by Roger Duvoising, some of which have been colored by hand at the studio of Charlize Brakely. This copy is signed by Roger Duvoisin. Size: Thick 4to
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.