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Click to view full description | 1. | Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses (Puffin Story Books)
Puffin June 30, 1982 Paperback
Paperback - 1982 - condition, pages loose - ladylisabooks website used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, nonfiction, non-fiction books delivered world wide.Child's Garden of VersesAcclaimed author Cooper Edens brings together Robert Louis Stevenson's classic ''garden of verses'' and illustrations from the 18th and 19th centuriesin this beautiful children's read, now in a board book edition. Eight of Stevenson's poems appear in the book -- including ''The Land of the Counterpane,'' ''The Lamplighter,'' and ''Foreign Lands'' -- all accompanied by full-colorpaintings from renowned illustrators, such as Bessie Collins Pease, Charles Robinson, Florence Edith Storer, and others. Parents will adore sharing Stevenson's verses with their children, taking them back to a pastoral timewhen life seemed simpler. In ''The Cow,'' the narrator describes a hungry cow: ''The friendly cow all red and white, / I love with all my heart: / She gives me cream with all her might, to eat with apple tart.'' And in ''The Swing,'' the speaker famously asks: ''How do you like to go up in a swing, / Up inthe air so blue? / Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing / Ever a childcan do!'' Just right for a new generation of children who will quickly cherish them as much as previous readers, these timeless classics make a perfectgift that will remain in the mind and the heart forever.A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.This beautiful board book features eight of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poems with antique illustrations by some of the best-known children's book illustrators of
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| 2. | Stevenson, Robert Louis The Master of Ballantrae
Dutton Adult February 4, 197 Hardcover
ABOUT THE BOOKMaster of Ballantrae: A Winter's TaleFROM THE PUBLISHERStevenson's brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme - the elemental struggle between good and evil - as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds itself tragically divided. Stevenson's remarkably vivid characterizations create an acutely moving, psychologically complex work; as Andrea Barrett points out in her Introduction, ''The brothers' characters, not the historical facts, shape the drama.''
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 | 3. | Stevenson, Robert Louis Travels with a Donkey
London Macmillan 1925 Hardcover
Hardback no D/J in good condition, some minor bumps to cover. Pocket Edition. Red cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine.
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| 4. | Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
London Saturn Press Hardcover
hardback no D/J in average condition, pages all tight with colour illustrations by C B Falls. Pages are yellowing with age. No pen marks to book.
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