1911 Rare First Edition - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk.

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Maria Louise Kirk, illustrator.
Title: The Secret Garden.
Publisher: New York, Frederick Stokes, 1911. First edition with "1911" on the copyright page and no additional printings listed.
Language: Text in English.  
Size: 8 " X 6 ". 
Pages: 375 pages.
Binding: Very good and attractive original green full cloth-covered boards with gold stamped lettering and the small pictorial pastedown on the front cover. Roses on the top edge of the front cover (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, gilt on spine faded - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light staining, toning or foxing - as shown, small ex-libris stamp remaining on the last endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Beautifully illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk with a color frontispiece and 4 full-page color plates (complete). 

Estimate : (USD 500 - USD 700)

The book: Rare and Attractive First Edition of The Secret Garden - The children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett was 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).

The illustrator: Maria Louise Kirk (21 June 1860 – 21 June 1938), usually credited as M. L. Kirk or Maria L. Kirk, was an American painter and illustrator of more than fifty books, most of them for children. Her notable work includes illustrations for a US edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1904, for the first edition of The Secret Garden, and for several books by L. M. Montgomery and Johanna Spyri.