Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Price: US$6.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and soiling. Pages lightly tanned.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1905 0nly date but Circa 1950's? BB2D-2.59(H) on copyright page. 14 glossy color plates by Smith. Nice tight copy with light blue covers with paste on illustration.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.01 + shipping
Description:
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reset/reprinted 1955 Gift inscription of ffep, otherwise unmarked, clean and bright. Light wear at spine ends and corners.sewn binding, 105 p., brick-red cloth, Illustrations. 12 full color plates.Beautifully printed and illustrated. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD Condition, cover ilust very rubbed.Name to endpaper "Kathryn Williams" in attractive hand;ILUST FOR PAGE 10 IS MISSING!.OTHER 11 of 12 Ilustrations are present & protected by original sheet paper.also has decorated title page. Many ilust in text. Solid Copy.but misling 1 ilust & very rubbed cover ilust. Has had inner endpaper reset on white sheets for some reason, very nice job, if not original.Has Black cloth hard covers with most of original GOLD SPINE TITLES present & bright. GOLD TOP EDGE TO TEXT BLOCK. ; HAS ORIGINAL DECORATED ENDPAPERS SHOWING CHILDREN AT VARIOUS GARDENING TASKS & NEAT names "FREDDY SCHAEFER, JOAN MARIE PHILIPPI" in old rbber stamps 1/8th" small. Could be made whole with addition of missing ilust from another copy with severe defects. ; 125pg pages; Scribner Illustrated Classics Series Edition. Famous Poems of remembered childhood.luminous understanding of childrens play. " .Color decorated endpapers show boy & girl in garden, tending flower & digging.in Green & red ink on white end papers. .has 10 glossy ilust plusGARDEN GATE GLOSSY COLOR PLATE Pasted to front BLACK CLOTH HARD COVER. .Gold spine titles.
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, 124 (2) pp. @1927 Printing. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith: 1905. Price clipped. 3/4" chipping along top edge dj with a few additional very small chips and edge wear. Age-toned bottom and fore- text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.25" x 9.5". Black cloth with tipped-in color illustration on front board, and gilt lettering to spine, brown top text block, and illustrated end papers. Illustrated, age-toned dj in acetate protector. Size: Wide Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1905. No Edition Remarks. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with faded lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Faded lettering.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In Very Good Condition , This Book Is Volume Xvi Of The Thistle Edition. Clean And Unmarked, Red Cloth Covered Boards With Bright Gilt Line Border And Gilt Title On Front Board, Signature Thistle Design In Gilt, Slightly Faded, On Spine. Rough Cut Pages. Bumping To Head And Tail Of Spine Otherwise In Excellent Condition.
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: used hardcover copy some wear/tears to dust jacket, Creased with tanning to pages with age, spine intact.
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, worcester, MA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1905.
Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Description: Hardback in Good condition. No Dust Jacket. Black cloth boards with 'paste down' illustration to front boards, and gold lettering to spine. Boards worn and spine sunned. A well used copy. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's details neatly written in ink to half title page. 125 pages. Slight cracking to inside of boards and scattered light foxing throughout. There are faint signs of damp staining to the bottom edges of some pages and one page has a tear which does not affect the text or illustrations.Twelve full page coloured illustrations from drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith , protected by tissue guards. (one plate missing) There are a further eighty illustrations within the text, many in colour.
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verse. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With the Scribner's monogram on the copyright page but a latter date on the title page. Original black gilt cloth with pictorial pastedown and illustrated endpapers. All color plates present. Cover color a bit dull but spine gilt bright. A clean, unmarked, tight copy, scarce in this condition.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early but not first issue. Original black cloth, title in gilt to spine, full-size color insert to front. Showing wear to ends, edges and corners. MCMV on title-page, 1905 on copyright page with Scribner colophon, insert impression measures 21.3 cm, "Charles Scribner's Sons" on copyright page measures 2.6cm as on later issues, no "Various Editions" list opposite title-page, "Scribner's" low on spine botttom. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. illustrated end papers without names or writing. 124 numbered pages, clean in the binding. Illustrated title-page, twelve full-page color plates with captioned tissue guards bound-in, all by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Seller: BookSearch, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Scribners, 1905.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scribner (and Lane), 1905. Illustrated edition. Charles Robinson's first fully illustrated book, with over 100 black & white pen & ink drawings. 137 pages with 3 tail piece illustration at end. This edition does not have the color plates. In elaborately gilt decorated fine (shiny?) green cloth. Former owner's bookplate and stamps successfully removed, though a trace remains. This book captures imagination in image as few other books do. It was reprinted in multiple editions over the subsequent decades. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons & John Lane, 1905. Title page dated 1905. Classic children's verses with Art Nouveau black and white line drawings throughout. Dark maroon hardcover with lettering and decoration in gilt on both covers and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 138 pages, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Light rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, name neatly written at top of front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, 124 (1) pp. with 12 tissue-protected color plates and text illustrations in b&w from drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith. First Edition, 1905. Mylar protected boards. Age-toned text bottom and fore- text block edges and gutters with lightly foxed fore-edge margins of a small number of pages. Otherwise clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with tipped-in color plate on front panel, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top text block edge, and illustrated endpapers. Size: Small 4to
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely edition, with gilt titles / color paste-on, on black cloth. 105pp. Small dulled spot on bottom edge of front cover, otherwise an unusually fresh and clean copy. Size: Wide Large Octavo
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verse. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With the Scribner logo on the copyright page. One of Scribner's color plate series. A clean, bright, unmarked copy with all color plates present.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
robert lovis stevenson. a child's garden verses. charle's scribner's sons, new york, 1905.
Price: US$84.75 + shipping
Description:
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner, 1905.
Price: US$95.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1905. Charles Scribner. First Edition. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Good Condition plus. Cover rubbed, Spine good, neat inscription.
Seller: Mrs Middleton's Shop and the Rabbit Hole, Freshwater, United Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses. Scribners and Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. First Edition Light shelf/edge wear, light toning to spine, minor rubbing to front pastedown, touch of soiling to front endpages, (dated 1905) . Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, color paper onlay, decorative endpages, printed tissueguards, teg. Small 4to. 125pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Overall, worn fair to good copy, but the text and plates are excellent. and the central pastedown pictorial is good plus there is some wear to covers, and the joints are tender, but overall pretty.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$117.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair+ Hardcovers. No DJ's. 24 VOLUME SET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (red boards with gilt lettering) show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing and some with damp stains. 10 of the volumes hinge cracked but binding is still intact Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable. SECTION TITLES: The Novels and Tales (10 books), Travels and Essays (4 books), Ballads and Other Poems (1 book), Letters and Miscellanies (7 books), and 2 volumes of "The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson".; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Coversshelfworn. Front hinge cracked. Gift inscription on first blank page.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 124pp. Quarto [24 cm] Black cloth with a color pictorial label on the front board. Spine stamped in gold. The cloth at the spine ends and corners of the covers is a little rubbed and frayed. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers and title page. With twelve full-page color plates with captioned tissue-guards. The front hinge is a bit weak. The front pastedown has a previous owner's bibliophilic bookplate. Nudelman A22. Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith was one of America's most prolific illustrators. She illustrated over sixty children's books, was responsible for over 450 periodical illustrations, and produced numerous posters, calendars, and prints. Slightly later issue illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, with the "Charles Scribner's Sons" printed on the copyright page measuring 2.6 cm wide, and the publisher's colophon on this page as well.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy of this well-known classic. Light shelf/edge wear, light toning to spine, minor rubbing to front pastedown, touch of soiling to front endpages, gift inscription (dated 1905) on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, color paper onlay, decorative endpages, printed tissueguards, teg. Small 4to. 125pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Twenty-six volumes, complete; octavo; illustrated with frontispieces; gilt ruled red cloth, top edge gilt, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, fore edges untrimmed; An unusually bright set; The volumes are as follows; Contents: I. New Arabian nights. --II. Treaure Island. --III. More new Arabian nights: The dynamiter, written in collaboration with Mrs. Stevenson. The story of a lie. --IV. Prince Otto. Island Nghts' Entertainments. Father Damien. --V. Kidnapped. --VI. David Balfour: a Sequel to Kidnapped. --VII. The Merry Men and other tales and fables. The Srange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. --VIII. The Black Arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson. The body-snatcher. --IX. The Master of Ballantrae. --X. The Wrecker, written in collaboration with L. Osbourne. --XI. The Wrong Box, written in collaboration with L. Osbourne. The Ebb Tide, written in collaboration with L. Osbourne. --XII. An Inland Voyage. Travels with a Donkey. Edinburgh, picturesque notes. --XIII. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers. Memories and Portraits. --XIV. Familiar studies of men and books. Miscellaneous papers. --XV. The Amateur Emigrant. Across the plains. The Silverado Squatters. --XVI. A Child's Garden of Verses. Underwoods. Ballads. --XVII. Vailima Letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin. --XVIII. Memoir of Fleming Jenkin. Records of a family of engineers. --XIX. In the South Seas. A foot-note to history. --XX. Wier of Hermiston. The plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. Fables. XXI. St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England. --XXII. Sketches. Criticisms, etc. --XXIII & XXIV Letters to his families and friends. --XXV & XXVI. Life of Robert Louis Stevenson / by Graham Balfour.
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven black cloth with a splendid Jessie Wilcox Smith color illustration on the front boards. With very bright gilt lettering on the spine; and top edges gilded. Charming endpapers of chidren planting and watering trees. Printed on quality heavy stock with all 12 full-page color plates and their tissue guards present. Very clean and tight throughout. With some light wear to the extremities and some light flecking at the top corner of the rear panel; touch of rubbing along the spine. With a gentle concavity to the rear boards. Otherwise, a very handsome, collectible copy of this classic symbiosis between the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and the delightful art of Jessie Wilcox Smith. A Child's Garden of Versesis a collection ofpoetryfor children by the Scottish authorRobert Louis Stevenson, a collection that concerns childhood, illness, play, and solitude. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the titlePenny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often inillustratedversions. It contains about 65 poems, including "Foreign Children", "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane", "Bed in Summer", "My Shadow", and "The Swing".In 1922, the classical scholarTerrot Reaveley Gloverpublished a translation of the poems intoLatinunder the titleCarmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.[1]Stevenson's parents were both devout Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its adherence to Calvinist principles. His nurseAlison Cunningham(known as Cummy)[10]was more fervently religious. Her mix of Calvinism and folk beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a precocious concern for religion.[11]But she also cared for him tenderly in illness, reading to him fromJohn Bunyanand the Bible as he lay sick in bed and telling tales of theCovenanters. Stevenson recalled this time of sickness in "The Land of Counterpane" inA Child's Garden of Verses(1885),[12]dedicating the book to his nurse.[13]. (Wikipedia) First Edition, first issue, with matching dates of 1905 on the title and copyright pages. No subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.
Price: US$275.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Scribner's Sons listed on title page under Longman's; Longman's name printed at foot of spine. faint pencil name on endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed; text and illustrations near fine condition; front pastedown exceptionally nice, one 1/4" scratch at edge; extremities lightly bumped; covers slightly scuffed, couple of small dings in spine; spine slightly cocked. a very beautiful copy."
Seller: Indy Library Store, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Black cloth cover is bumped and frayed at corners and spine caps with some loss to cloth along bottom edges and general wear but clean and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's names on front end sheets. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Complete with 12 color plates. ; 124 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$312.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. with cold. illus. title page, a further12 cold. plates and many b.w. drawings. 8vo. orig. bds. with pict. cover, t.e.g. Covers slightly marked, occasional light foxing, some marking to tissue cards, else generally v.g.
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Bound in publisher's original charcoal cloth with pictorial onlay. Very Good with rubbing to binding, fading to spine and light, scuffing and a large stain to the rear cover. Pages toned. Occasional pencil scribbles, and more scribbles that have been erased.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$377.00 + shipping
Description: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, Scribner's, 1905, first edition thus, t.p.e.'s gold-gilt, a bright vg+ or slightly better copy with all 12 full color plates by Jesse Willcox Smith present and in fine condition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Near fine copy of one of Smith's most endearing collection of illustrations. Color cover insert, full-page color plates. The scarce first issue with all of the first issue points. Near fine with fading to spine, some folding of one tissue guard, edgewear.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$585.60 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: colour illustrated endpapers; po 1909 message top 3rd blank page; c1905; colour plates tissue protected; b/w illustrations; colour cover board paste down in tact
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden Of Verses. Scribner's, 1905.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition (1905) with Smith Illustrations. Fine copy (light staining to back panel).Near fine Fresh Jacket. $1.75 on flap.Difficult First. Jacket lightly chipped at crown.Beautiful Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.