A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
1920. New Edition. 137 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration to spine and front board. Contains black and white illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. Pages are heavily thumb-marked with moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription and ex-libris to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding is quite loose. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and notable rubbing to surfaces. Heavy sunning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a subtle forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened.