STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green 1885. 12mo, original blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, extremities a bit rubbed, endpapers partially cracking at inner hinges, blue half morocco slipcase (scuffed). FIRST EDITION, the variant with the regular apostrophe in "Child's" on spine, PRESENTATION COPY FROM STEVENSON'S MOTHER, inscribed by her on front blank page: "Edmund & Charles Baxter with love from M.I. Stevenson, March 1885." Charles Baxter was one of Robert Louis Stevenson's closest friends since their university days together; the following year (1886) the author dedicated Kidnapped to him. Beinecke 192; Hayward 297. Provenance : Charles Baxter -- Herschel V. Jones -- W.T.H. Howe -- Edith B. Tranter, bookplates of each.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green 1885. 12mo, original blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, extremities a bit rubbed, endpapers partially cracking at inner hinges, blue half morocco slipcase (scuffed). FIRST EDITION, the variant with the regular apostrophe in "Child's" on spine, PRESENTATION COPY FROM STEVENSON'S MOTHER, inscribed by her on front blank page: "Edmund & Charles Baxter with love from M.I. Stevenson, March 1885." Charles Baxter was one of Robert Louis Stevenson's closest friends since their university days together; the following year (1886) the author dedicated Kidnapped to him. Beinecke 192; Hayward 297. Provenance : Charles Baxter -- Herschel V. Jones -- W.T.H. Howe -- Edith B. Tranter, bookplates of each.
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