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A Child's Garden of Verses.
A Child's Garden of Verses.
A Child's Garden of Verses.
A Child's Garden of Verses.
A Child's Garden of Verses.
A Child's Garden of Verses.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

A Child's Garden of Verses. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.

£2,700.00
£2,700.00

A Child's Garden of Verses.

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First illustrated edition, preceded only by the first edition published in 1885, in the exceptionally rare, early state dust-jacket.

First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo (222 x 142 mm), 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1895, the odd, random spot, browning to extreme edges, otherwise very good; publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, offsetting and the a couple of spots to endpapers, dust-jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely replaced but still a notably early example of the dust jacket.

Stock code 109534

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A Child's Garden of Verses.

A Child's Garden of Verses.

£2,700.00
£2,700.00

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