Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry

1885

A Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, 1885. Firstedition. Original blue cloth. PR 5489.C5 1885 spec. coll.
A Child's Garden of Verses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,1885. First American edition. Original light blue-green boards.PR 5489.C5 1885b spec. coll.
A Child's Garden of Verses. London: John Lane; New York: CharlesScribner's Sons, 1896. Firs British illustrated edition.Original green pictorial cloth. PR 5489.C5 1896 spec. coll.
A Child's Garden of Verses, with Nine Poems Not Published in PriorEditions. San Francisco: Press in Tuscany Alley, 1978. Originalpictorial green boards. PR 5489.C5 1978 spec. coll.

1887

UnderwoodsUnderwoods. London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. Firstedition. Original blue cloth. PR 5489.U7 1887 spec. coll.
Underwoods. London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. Largepaper issue. Original white buckram. PR 5489.U7 1887b spec. coll.
Underwoods. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. Copy1: original printed parchment. Copy 2: brown half morocco. PR 5489.U71900 spec. coll.
Selection
  • A Lowden Sabbath Morn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. Firstseparate edition, British issue. Original pictorial dark blue cloth. PR5489.L6 1898 spec. coll.

    • 1890

    BalladsBallads. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Firstedition. Copies 1 & 2: original dark blue cloth. PR 5489.B2 1890spec. coll.
    Ballads. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Firstedition. Large paper issue. Original white buckram. PR 5489.B2 1890bspec. coll.
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  • A Christmas at Sea. London; New York: Marcus Ward, [1903?]. Firstseparate edition. Original olive-green wrappers. Blue quarter morocco slip-case.PR 5488.C48 1903 spec. coll.

    • 1896

    Songs of TravelSongs of Travel and Other Verses. London: Chatto & Windus,1896. First separate edition. Original blue buckram. PR5489.S6 1896 spec. coll.

    1908

    PoemsPoems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Originalgold-stamped red calf, printed on India paper. PR 5489.A3 1908 spec.coll.

    1916

    Poems by Robert Louis StevensonPoems by Robert Louis Stevenson. Boston: The Bibliophile Society,1916. First edition. Original violet quarter cloth. Greypaper-covered boards. In dust-wrapper. PR 5488.O6 spec. coll.
    New Poems and Variant Readings. London: Chatto & Windus,1918. First British edition of Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.Original blue cloth. PR 5489.A3 1918 spec. coll.

    1921

    Moral EmblemsMoral Emblems and Other Poems. London: Chatto & Windus,1921. First British edition. Original dark blue cloth. PR5489.M6 1921

    1923

    Twenty-two PoemsTwenty-two Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. Firstedition. Original cream-colored boards. PR 5489.A2 1923 spec. coll.
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