1911 Rare First Edition Book - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

 

Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Title : The Secret Garden
Publisher : New York, Frederick Stokes, 1911. First American edition.
Language : Text in English.  
Size : 8 " X 6 "
Pages : 375 pages.
Binding : Good and still attractive original green cloth covered boards with the large pictorial pastedown on front cover (overall worn and scuffed mainly on corners and upper and lower part of the spine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Good content (bright, tight and clean, crease on page 8 and outer margin of page 9 has been cut short but not affecting the text- as shown,  last endpaper worn - as shown, name of a previous owner on first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations : Beautifully illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk .(Complete with the color frontis and the 3 very nice full page plates). 

Estimate : (USD 700 - USD 1200)

The book : Rare and still attractive First American edition of The Secret Garden - The children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911, after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.
The American edition was published in 1911 by Stokes with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson.

The author: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).