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Stevenson, Robert Louis.. A Child's Garden of Verses.. Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1923.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound about 7.5 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide 127 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Description: All the many illustrations, both the three-color pictures and the black and white drawings, plus the endpapers are by Sue Seeley. From the publisher's Just Right Book Series. Biographical notes about Robert Louis Stevenson. BINDING/CONDITION: pale green cloth with paste-one art on the front cover; the cover shows a great deal of handling wear and staining; the cover art is faded but reasonably clean; the plain rear board is badly stained; the hinges are sound, the text unmarked, a few dog-eared pages; Fair condition; no dust jacket. Owner's name filled in on the ownership page. ISBN: B000PXTJMW
Seller: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago IL, 1923.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: corners and ends of spine heavily rubbed and frayed, front cover has light wear and soil, back cover has scattered soil, some loss of color and wrinkling, binding tight, two short edge tears in color frontispiece page not affecting printed area, bottom corner of contents page missing 2.5" tall by 4.25" wide piece affecting text, front free end paper has 3" vertical tear on bottom edge, half title page has red pencil mark and names written in pencil, book plate on verso, scattered red pencil marks and some edge tears up to 2" between pages 4 and 14, rest of pages clean with a few creased corners and short edge tears, Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry with 8 color illustrations and lots of bw illustrations Size: 6.25 x 8
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.. A Child's Garden of Verses. Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1923.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo hardcover volume in orange cloth boards with paper cover. Spine and boards very good with very minor wear on tips and a bit of rubbing on paper corners of cover. Endpapers not split Name on belongs to page and several names opposite. 127 page contents are tight and fine condition. Sue Seeley illustrator.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Just Right Book. 127 p. 19 cm. B&w and partial colour illustrations. Green cloth with pasted-on illustration. Worn cornersspine ends, rear hinge and edges. Spots on front cover label. Pencil signature on "This Book Belongs To" page. Tear at bottom of p. 11.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child's Garden of Verses. Albert Whitman and Company, Chicago IL, 1923.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Children's poetry. Covers rubbed and soiled, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Interior clean and tight, one page has a large closed tear, some finger smudges on the pages. Scarce edition.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ ,1923, First Edition THUS~~, VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, 12mo. Measures 7 3/8 inches tall by 5 5/8 inches wide. Hardcover bound in orange cloth with a blue and orange pictorial pastedown on the front cover MATCHES DJ ILLUSTRATION and with the original blue and orange dust jacket. DustJacket shows some rubbing and wear and general soiling & Tiny Chips Tears Extremities. Book has some pale spotting Fade on the boardsEdges from damping. There is no damping inside the book. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. , One illustration on page 23, above the poem entitled "Rain", has similarities to the old Morton Salt Girl, which appeared on the front of the blue salt containers since the 1910s. A lovely and scarce book. . Blue cloth, color illustrated paper panel affixed to front within black border, illustrated kraft endpapers in green ink, 127 pgs, plus a page listing the other 24 "Just Right Books," including fifty illustrations in color by Sue Seeley. DJ protected in a new archival clear plastic cover, Dust jacket is moderately agetoned , Color Illus; One looks like MORTON SALT GIRL, Illustrated with drawings in B/W as well as with colors in tan, brown or orange. Green & White Illustrated Endpapers FOXED, Color Frontispiece, Preface
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ ,1923, First Edition THUS~~, VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, 12mo. Measures 7 3/8 inches tall by 5 5/8 inches wide. Hardcover bound in orange cloth with a blue and orange pictorial pastedown on the front cover MATCHES DJ ILLUSTRATION and with the original blue and orange dust jacket. DustJacket shows some rubbing and wear and general soiling 7 Tiny Chips Tears Extremities. Book has some pale spotting Fade on the boardsEdges from damping. There is no damping inside the book. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. , One illustration on page 23, above the poem entitled "Rain", has similarities to the old Morton Salt Girl, which appeared on the front of the blue salt containers since the 1910s. A lovely and scarce book. . Blue cloth, color illustrated paper panel affixed to front within black border, illustrated kraft endpapers in green ink, 127 pgs, plus a page listing the other 24 "Just Right Books," including fifty illustrations in color by Sue Seeley. DJ protected in a new archival clear plastic cover, Dust jacket is moderately agetoned, Color Illus; One looks like MORTON SALT GIRL, Illustrated with drawings in B/W as well as with colors in tan, brown or orange. Green & White Illustrated Endpapers FOXED, Color Frontispiece, Preface
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.