A Child's Garden of Verses

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1885

About this Item

First U.S. edition. Some darkening and rubbing to cover, but very good. Interesting literary association. Inscribed "Chas. F. McClumpha from Jonathan Sturges July 22, 1885." Sturges, an American born author and writer, was a close friend of both James McNeill Whistler and Henry James, and had correspondences with both. Sturges also was in some way the original of Little Bilham in "The Ambassadors" by James (1903). Charles Flint McClumpha, whose bookplate appears on the pastedown endpaper, was an author of scholarly books. Also tipped in is a small plate reproducing a handwritten note by Stevenson about friendship, "printed for Edwin Osgood Grover and a few of his friends." A nice copy of a classic, with evidence of early appreciation of Stevenson among literary circles. Henry James was a close friend of Stevenson, and was praised in one of his poems. Seller Inventory # 012395

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Child's Garden of Verses

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition