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1978461461978. STEVENSON Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. 114 4 pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts 36 woodcut initials and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. Large 8vo. 250 x 160 mm bound in half morocco over boards title in gilt on spine. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1978. One of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. Nine poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. The book is a combination of colourful initials vignettes and full-page plates designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and skillfully printed by her husband the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson in Centaur and Arrighi types. hardcover books
191145590New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1911. 27 volumes 8vo 2 folding maps 1 double-page map 5 plates; original three-quarter turquoise crushed levant gilt decoprated spines in 6 compartments gilt-lettered in 2 t.e.g.; spines uniformly toned occasionall minor rub marks; all else very good and sound. Includes The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Graham Balfour as volume 27. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1892229294London Longmans Green & Co. 1892. 1892. First edition deluxe issue. 4to. 1 page introduction by Stevenson. Illustrations by Stevenson. Music by C. Villiers Stanford. Original red cloth stamped in gilt and black with a scene of four children marching down the street of a village a.e.g.; yellow coated endpapers. Very good fresh copy. 33 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. McKay 217 this is the deluxe issue; there were also copies issued in green wrappers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. hardcover books
18861S-005Cassell & Co 1886 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE FIRST EDITION RED CLOTH HARDCOVER w/CUSTOM SLIPCASE of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON's "Kidnapped Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751". This is the first edition first issue with "business" on p. 40 line 11 and the ads dated 5.G.4.86 and 5.B.4.86. It was preceded only by the very rare copyright edition. Folding map. Viii 311pp. 17 pp.ad s. A very good copy with a vertical crease on the front cover and an inscription in black ink on black front end paper. In brown cloth custom-made slipcase. Cassell & Co, 1886 hardcover books
1879261227London: Kegan Paul 1879. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. Blue-green silk cloth pictorially stamped in gilt brown endpapers: minor binding wear inner hinges starting. London: Kegan Paul 1879. First Edition.<br/><br/> Stevenson's first published work. 1881 ownership signature and two later bookplates one of them the ex libris of Carroll Atwood Wilson. In a cloth clam-shell case.<br/><br/> Kegan Paul unknown books
1895116211895. Illustrated. New York: The Merriam Company n.d. 1895. 3 pp undated ads. Original violet cloth decorated in dark violet. First Edition issued as the second volume in Merriam's "Violet Series." This is Stevenson's famous tale about the anatomist "K---" and his need for cadavres based undoubtedly upon the career of Robert Knox 1793-1862; the 1945 film of the same title starred Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. RLS actually wrote this tale in mid-1881 to be part of a collection of supernatural tales which he referred to as "creepers"; he never completed the project but a few of the tales remain. Ironically this grisly tale's first appearance was in the Pall Mall Gazette's 1884 Christmas Extra substituted at the last moment for a briefer RLS tale in order to fulfill a commitment of sufficient length. It is equally ironic that such a grisly story would first appear in book form in this cute little violet volume decorated with flowers. This is an attractive nearly fine copy unusually free of soil or wear the lettering on the spine is a little faded as always and there are small tape-stains on the endpapers; there is no bubbling of the cloth which is atypical for this book. Beinecke 608. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1885144871885. One 5"x8" printed receipt form with the date amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company 23 December 1885. This receipt acknowledges payment of two guineas to Stevenson for "the use of my Poem entitled 'A Song of the Road' in 'The Magazine of Art' appearing in Part 63." This poem of seven four-line stanzas did indeed appear in the January 1886 issue of that magazine and was then in 1887 included in the Stevenson volume of verse UNDERWOODS published by Chatto & Windus. At the end of this poem in that volume it reads "Forest of Montargis 1878" -- for RLS wrote the first version of this poem after his 1875 walking tour around France. He then called it in his notebook now at Yale "The Gauger's Flute" -- as the poem is about a gauger excise officer who plays on his flute a refrain "Over the hills and far away" as a warning when he approaches his friend's hidden distillery. Interestingly this is one of the poems that RLS put to music late in life when he learned to play a "flageolet" -- essentially a pennywhistle with keys. The receipt is in near-fine condition with a couple of small edge-chips; the receipt was folded and notated by the publisher's staff for filing purposes. It provides a clear full signature of Stevenson. <br/><br/> unknown books
19044820New York/London: The Co-Operative Publication Society 1904. Hard Cover. Octavo. In eight volumes superbly bound by McLeod in 3/4 black morocco and tan cloth covered thick boards matching tan cloth endpapers raised bands gilt six compartments lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt ribbon markers illustrated includes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Treasure Island The Black Arrow and others. An exceptionally fine set handsomely bound. <br/><br/> The Co-Operative Publication Society hardcover books
1886Embry 149134Longmans Green & Co. London: 1886. First edition first printing. Last page chipped along leading edge and rehinged with Japanese tissue soft crease to uppr corners of text block half-title lightly toned still a near fine copy in a fine modern binding. One-half crushed red morocco over marbled boards spine simply gilt with central devices. Longmans, Green & Co., London: 1886. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
18982307474London: Printed for Private Distribution Only 1898. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition #10 of 30 copies. Rebound in full red leather by Zaehnsdorf. 1898 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 25 pp. Full red leather gilt titles and rules top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Three short poems by Robert Louis Stevenson author of Treasure Island Kidnapped etc. This edition was never intended for public distribution but examples of this 30-copy print run which contains facsimiles of manuscript material somehow found their way onto the market. Printed for Private Distribution Only unknown books
1885140938077London: Longmans Green and Co 1885. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt over beveled boards; top edge gilt. Very Good. Cloth rubbed at extremities darkend at spine and lightly scuffed. Offsetting to endsheets. Stevenson's influential collection of poetry for children. Longmans, Green and Co unknown books
1885D16989London: Longmans Green and Co. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 1000 copies. Stevenson began writing these verses around 1881. He was quoted as having said these are nice rhymes and I dont think they will be difficult to do after reading Kate Greenaways Birthday Book for Children. This is a handsome copy in the original beveled blue cloth. One of the authors most beloved works with light wear only <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover books
1885123972London: 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. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood from sailing boats down a river to waiting for the lamplighter to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
D17713Check signed drawn on RLSs account at the Wilts & Dorset Banking Company August 10 1887 payable to Harry Wilson in the amount of one pound five schillings and six pence sterling. In excellent condition. <br/><br/> unknown books
104791London: Longmans Green and Co. 1885. Small 8vo x 101 pp. Blue-colored cloth over beveled boards backstrip lettered in gilt gilt publisher’s stamp on top cover. Top edge gilt. Trivial rubbing at extremities. Endpapers show some paste action. Internally fine. Housed in an Atmore Beach folding box and quarter-morocco slipcase. Very good. § First edition. 1000 copies printed in 1885 at five shillings each. Stevenson began work on this influential book of children’s verse after taking up Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children and proclaiming “these are rather nice rhymes and I don’t think they will be difficult to do.†Grolier Children’s 100 #49. Prideaux 14 Hayward 297 Osborne II: 662. Longmans hardcover books
188599773London: 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 bookplate to the pastedown and name. Housed in a contemporary custom half morocco and cloth clamshell and chemise. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood from sailing boats down a river to waiting for the lamplighter to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1885320653London: Longmans Green 1885. First edition first issue. Publisher's presentation blindstamp on the title. 2 x 101 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue cloth gilt t.e.g. others uncut. Very minor spotting and wear. Toning to the endpapers as usual. First edition first issue. Publisher's presentation blindstamp on the title. 2 x 101 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's presentation copy of the first edition first issue of Stevenson's collection of children's verse with first appearances of "The Land of Counterpane" "The Land of Nod" "My Shadow" "Uncle Sparky" and "My Bed is a Boat" Prideaux A35; Hayward 297; Beinecke 192; Gumuchian 5440; Osborne II page 662; McKay 192 Longmans, Green unknown books
1887319959New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1887. First American edition preceding the first English edition by 25 years. viii 302 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. Faintest traces of rubbing to spine a near fine copy. Bookplates. Blue morocco-backed slipcase and cloth chemise. First American edition preceding the first English edition by 25 years. viii 302 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the first blank <br/>"Given under my hand at Saranac Lake in the year eighteen hundred and eighty eight Robert Louis Stevenson"<br/>Stevenson's biography of Professor Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin the professor of engineering at the University of Edinburgh who exerted a strong influence upon the young Stevenson. Jenkin and his wife met Stevenson when he was an engineering student and aspiring poet. "It was the beginning of a friendship marked by admiration and affection on their side but something like idolatry on Louis's . Greater even than his intellectual impact on the young Louis was his moral influence: he taught the young man not to strive for effect as a critic and instead to aim for integrity" McLynn pp. 37-8.<br/><br/>Stevenson "found the writing of the memoir difficult doubtless because of the complex emotions involved: work proceeded slowly McLynn p. 249. He completed the manuscript at Bournemouth in June 1887 just after his father's death. They left England in late August and stayed in Saranac Lake from October until April 1888. The preface to the American edition is dated October 1887 at Saranac. <br/>Uncommon inscribed. Prideaux 25 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1885WRCLIT64344London: Longman's Green and Co. 1885. Small octavo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt bevelled edges t.e.g. others untrimmed. Binding darkened and worn with chipping to spine ends old and now elapsed repairs to inner hinges between endsheets and text block endsheets darkened and rear pastedown bubbled shaken one leaf carelessly opened with marginal chip; a heavily used and traveled copy with fine provenance. "Second edition" i.e. second printing of the first edition. A fine family association copy inscribed by Stevenson's mother on the half-title: "John Balfour from his affect Grand Aunt M.I. Stevenson October 1885." Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson 1829- 1897 or "Maggie" as she was known to her family married Thomas Stevenson in 1848 and gave birth to RLS in 1850. She had a strong and loving relationship with her son. Although quarrels between RLS and his father about religion his career and his marriage were upsetting to the family the family remained close. After her husband died in 1887 Maggie went with RLS and Fanny on their travels to America and the South Seas and even settled with them in Vailima. She returned to Edinburgh to live with her sister after RLS died. BEINECKE 195. HAYWARD 297. PRIDEAUX A35. Longman's Green, and Co. hardcover books
1886145561886. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1886. One page undated ads. Original salmon cloth. First English Edition which according to McKay was published on 9 January 1886 -- four days after the American one Longmans had intended to publish it in December 1885 but the bookstalls were already so full of Christmas numbers that the trade "would not look at it". The story of how RLS came to write this classic tale is by now well known: He was one night in the middle of a nightmare when Fanny alarmed by his disturbance woke him. Louis complained with irritation that she had interrupted a 'fine bogy tale.' Seizing his pen the following day he began to write down the story he had dreamed. Initially it was the Gothic horror of the story that excited him and he produced a first draft at great speed reading the story triumphantly to Fanny when he finished. But Fanny wasn't happy with the story. She felt that it could be more than a Poe-like crawler that it could be more morally pointed than Louis had fashioned it. Certainly in this case it can only be said that her comments did the story and Louis considerable good. Angrily the first draft was cast into the fire and he started again this time producing the version of STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE that we know. Calder What an imagination! -- hard to believe that this is the same writer who came up with another book published by Longmans Green just one year earlier and here promoted on the ad leaf: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. This is a very good-plus copy of what was a very cheaply-produced book: there is minor soil as usual for this light salmon cloth and slight bubbling of the cloth due to the semi-flexible nature of the boards. The original patterned endpapers are fine and there is no foxing on the leaves within. McKay Beinecke/Yale 348; Princeton 30A copy 1. Housed in a handsome calf-backed slipcase with leather label with inner chemise. unknown books
188296749London: Chatto & Windus 1882. First edition first printing of the short story collection containing Stevenson's first published fiction considered by many to be his best work with page 155 of second volume misnumbered '55' and 'Maletroit' misspelt 'Maledroit' on page 179. Octavos two volumes original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and arabesque decorations to the front panels with the 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear of second volume dated May 1882. In near fine condition. From the library of bibliophile and yachtsman Henry C. Taylor with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise case. An exceptional example. A collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880 Stevenson's New Arabian Nights proved to be a pioneering work in the English short story tradition. The collection contains Stevenson's first ever published fiction A Lodging for the Night as well as The Pavilion on the Links which Arthur Conan Doyle characterized "the high-water mark of Stevenson's genius" and "the first short-story in the world". Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1924261145London: Heinemann 1924. hardcover. very good. 30 volumes 8vo 3/4 tan polished calf brown leather spine labels top edges gilt shows some wear at the tops of spines. London: Heinemann 1924. Skerryvore Edition. Very Good.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
1885305362London: Longmans Green and Co 1885. First edition. 2 x 101 pp. Spottiswoode & Co. Printers. 12mo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt with apostrophe shaped like a small "7." Very slight rubbing at spine ends endpapers offset. First edition. 2 x 101 pp. Spottiswoode & Co. Printers. 12mo. The first edition of Stevenson's classic collection of poetry for children with first appearances of "The Land of Counterpane" "The Land of Nod" "My Shadow" "Uncle Sparky" and "My Bed is a Boat" Prideaux A35; Hayward 297; Beinecke 192-3; Gumuchian 5440 Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
1886140939554London: Longmans Green and Company 1886. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first issue with correction to front wrap. viii 141 1 blank pp. Bound in three-quarter blue calf and blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt with five raised bands. Original wrappers with ads on versos bound in. Housed in custom clamshell case. Very Good with creasing and evidence of repair along gutters. Front and back wraps slightly scuffed and a little soiled slight diagonal crease to half-title contents generally bright and clean. A nice example of the classic novel of man's duality. Longmans, Green and Company unknown books
1887319961Bournemouth 1887. Ink on laid paper. 1 page 20 lines with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6-3/8 inches. Old folds. Ink on laid paper. 1 page 20 lines with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6-3/8 inches. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 and his wife Fanny lived in Bournemouth from 1884 through August 1887 at first in rented lodgings and from April 1885 at Skerryvore named after one of Alan Stevenson's lighthouses and which Thomas Stevenson bought as a wedding gift for Fanny. An early and regular visitor to Skerryvore was Henry James. The Bournemouth years were prolific ones for Stevenson despite his illness. A Child's Garden of Verses was published in March 1885 and he wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in September and October 1885 and Kidnapped the following year.<br/>Early in 1887 Stevenson's health took a turn for the worse. Colvin notes that "for several months his correspondence almost entirely fails". In a February letter to Henry James Stevenson wrote "All new work stands still".<br/>The letter to his cousin Jane Mackintosh née Stevenson 1843-1909 seeks a junior household servant a recurring problem at Skerryvore. Reading in part:<br/>"Dear Janey which seems a formidable address from one who is practically a stranger - do you know anything of a decently strong and decently good natured girl not too old to learn not too gay to live in a very quiet house and reasonably anxious to please. We have a Swiss girl who is housekeeper and manages everything for us. . We wish a girl to teach because older girls find the place dull - and odd; especially the cooking. Your affectionate cousin Robert Louis Stevenson".<br/><br/>A good suggestive letter written just before a period of great change. In May Stevenson's father died; his memoir "Thomas Stevenson Civil Engineer" was published in June. In August the Stevensons left Bournemouth and sailed to America with a case of champagne in their cabin as a parting gift from Henry James. "Louis was now about to abandon the polite society of England for the rough life of the frontier and the ocean" McLynn. unknown books
