A Child's Garden of Verses
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1919. Illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock.
Blue cloth with gilt spine and front titles with a color past-on; 10.5 inches tall; 96 pages; 1st Thus with illustrations in color and monochrome by Ruth Mary Hallock, pages on heavy stock; The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with some cloth fading and corner/edge wear.
Rand McNally’s 1919 large-format edition of Stevenson’s classic gathers 64 poems with Ruth Mary Hallock’s charming plates and drawings. Typically bound in blue cloth with a pictorial onlay, gilt titling, and roughly 96 pages, this 'first thus' presentation brought a new American visual identity to the work. Hallock (1876–1945), a New York illustrator of children and genre scenes, contributes eight color plates plus numerous line decorations.
Ruth Mary Hallock (1876–1945) was an American illustrator and painter known for children’s portraits and story imagery; her work appears across early-20th-century children’s books, including this edition. A Child’s Garden of Verses itself remains one of the most influential children’s poetry collections of the period, featuring “The Land of Nod,” “My Shadow,” and “Foreign Lands.”
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Price: $24.00
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