A Child's Garden of Verses First Edition

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  • First Edition, first issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses

    STEVENSON, Robert Louis .

    A Child’s Garden of Verses.

    London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885.

    First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.

    Price: $1,750.00     Item Number: 123972

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