• A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - front cover and spine
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - rear board
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - illustrated endpapers with owner name
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - title page
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - copyright page and dedication
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - contents
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  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - contents and section title
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - The Swing illustration
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - Escape at Bedtime illustration
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947 Oxford University Press hardcover - Singing and Looking Forward pages
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A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses

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Condition: Very Good

Book Notes: Green cloth boards with pictorial paste-on label; light rubbing and soiling, scuffs on the rear board, small white scuff on the lower front board near the spine. Spine ends lightly frayed; corners rubbed. Binding tight; pages clean. Previous owner's name in ink on the illustrated front pastedown.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson

Publication year: 1947

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Condition: Very Good
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Robert Louis Stevenson's poems for children with pictures by Tasha Tudor. The poems are grouped in the sections A Child's Garden, The Child Alone, Garden Days and Envoys, and include "Bed in Summer," "The Land of Nod," "The Swing," "Escape at Bedtime" and "My Shadow."

Oxford University Press, New York, 1947. Pictures by Tasha Tudor.

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