1911 The Secret Garden 1st by Frances Burnett | Illustrated Childrens Literature

1911 The Secret Garden 1^st by Frances Burnett | Illustrated Childrens Literature

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

A scarce and charming early edition of the classic piece of children’s literature. This story focuses on the lives of neglected children seeking acceptance and love and overcoming selfishness and negativity. This printing includes the famous frontispiece depicting two children and a fox.

Item number: #26975

Price: $599

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson

The secret garden

New York: F.A. Stokes, August 1911. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 375, [1]
  • 4 full-page color illustrations
• References: Lundin, Critical and Commercial Reception of ‘The Secret Garden’
• Provenance: Handwritten – Edith Thompson
  • Possibly Edith Jessie Thompson (1893–1923), a British woman who along with her affair partner, Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (1902–1923), was executed for the murder of Thompson’s husband Percy. Their case became a cause célèbre, with much of the evidence against Thompson being circumstantial, based only on her and Bywaters’ love letters. Her conviction has been attributed to bias against her as an adulteress, rather than on any evidence that she was involved with Bywaters’ actions.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Green cloth with pictorial label
• Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13cm)

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