A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)

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  Facsimile
  1995

  $3.36

  Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse.

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.21

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $15.07

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $13.89

  Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death.