Author: (Provensen, Alice & Martin). Willard, Nancy.
Title: The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.
Description: San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). (1987). FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Small quarto, 10-1/2 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Light blue boards backed with a buff cloth spine, titled in silver on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. [32] pages, most with full-page and double-page color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen illustrating rhyming text by Nancy Willard. There is a faint stain from an early price label at the top of the front endpaper. Near fine.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Nancy Willard on the title page.

"In August of 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on an Atlantic crossing. So unique was the voyage that his letters describing the passage inspired Nancy Willard to write a wondrous poem that floats somewhere between fact and fantasy." [Quoted from the dust wrapper's blurb]. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; FIRST EDITION; THE VOYAGE OF THE LUDGATE HILL; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; TRAVELS WITH ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON; POETRY; LITERATURE; COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS; ALICE AND MARTIN PROVENSEN; NANCY WILLARD; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH;

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