1911 Rare First Edition - The SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Title: The Secret Garden.
Publisher: New York, Frederick Stokes, 1911. First edition with "1911" on 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 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) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare staining and foxing, small bookseller stamp on the last endpaper - as shown, small stain on the outer edge of 5 preliminary pages - 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 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).