1911 Rare Book - The SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Title: The Secret Garden.
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911. First thus.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 375 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original tan full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, name of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
The book: Attractive early 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 a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.
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).