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Hodgson Burnett, Frances. The Secret Garden (centenary ed). Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1911.
Price: US$33.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes, 1911.
Price: US$89.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes. New York, 1911.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full-cover pastedown illustration on the front. Gold lettering faded on the spine. Corners lightly bumped, slight wear to the foot of the spine, an unfortunate stain on the rear cover, and some rubbing and scratching to the paste-down illustration. Binding good and tight. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1910, 1911, with small box indicating that this was printed in August 1911. 375 pages. Color frontispiece with dogeared tissue guard. Three additional color plates. Normal and even fading from age to the pages. A first printing of the perennial classic. This copy has an early, undated, ownership name and address on the front endpaper. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes, 1911.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth cover with pictorial pastedown quite worn/frayed on edges and scuffed. Gilt lost from embossing on spine. Front and back hinges split. Book plate on front pastedown; newspaper article tipped in on front end paper. Pages ivoried. With illustrations.
Seller: Escape Routes Used Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: August, 1911 on copyright page. Blue covers are worn, pastedown illustration is scuffed rubbed. Hinges are cracked. Frontis color illustration plus three other color plates. 375 pages.
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Burnett. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1911.
Price: US$350.86 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition of the beloved classic. Copyright page states August 1911. Inside hinges cracked but secure. Paste down is faded. Cloth is rubbed and has some edge and corner wear. Gift inscription inside reads, "Louis, with love from Mother. Christmas 1911." ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***
Seller: The Book Files, Broken Arrow, OK, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, NY, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition. This is the 1st edition with the date of August, 1911 on the copyright page and no further listings- along with no later listings to the title page. The front cover includes a full sized pictorial pastedown which has some lightish edge wear and rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The gilt lettering on the spine of the book is mostly rubbed away. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. Included are four full color, full sized illustrated plates (including the frontispiece). "In part written on Burnett's visits to Buile Hill Park, The Secret Garden was first serialised, starting in autumn 1910, in The American Magazine, a publication aimed at adults. The entire book was first published in summer 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York, and by Heinemann in London. The 1911 edition was illustrated by M. B. Kirk." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, U.S.A., 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition and first printing with date of August 1911 on the copyright page and no subsequent printings listed. Dark green pictorial hardcover boards with color front pastedown of a young girl peering into a secret garden; gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated including color frontis with tissue guard. Boards with moderate wear and edges frayed; spine faded; pages dusty with light foxing; previous owner's name inside. Binding is tight and complete. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911), A Little Princess (1905), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-6). First edition of The Secret Garden after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Very uncommon as such.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Perservation edition, circa 1913, very uncommon edition, octavo, green cloth over boards, stamped in dark green, red, and gilt, with paper illustration. Beloved children's novel following a young orphaned girl who goes to live at her uncle's estate and discovers a garden on his property, with color frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. Very good book, with light staiing at lower front cover and rear cover edges, inscribed by previous owner on half title, in good dust jacket with some uneven darkening to panels, stain on spine, and chipped top spine area.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1911.
Price: US$949.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First blue cloth edition with the "girl in the garden" pastedown covering nearly the whole front cover, color frontispiece and three color plates, 1911 on copyright page and no additional printings, 375 pp. From the library of book collector Ruth Ann Evans with her bookplate and her signature on the bookplate. Some tiny corner creases on a few leaves, Very Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. THE SECRET GARDEN. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1911.
Price: US$1324.95 + shipping
Description: Good+ in boards. Rear hinge starting. Soiling along top/bottom text block corners.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3522.38 + shipping
Description: First UK edition in book form and the first Charles Robinson illustrated edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge green. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with 8 beautiful full page colour plates by Charles Robinson complete with captioned tissue guards, as well as a black and white design to the title page and a vignette to the half title. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just minor rubbing to the extremities, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the half title are otherwise clean throughout. All of the plates and tissue guards remain in fine condition. The green top edge is bright and without fading. A lovely example in entirely original condition, scarce thus. The Secret Garden was originally serialised in The American Magazine, beginning in Autumn 1910; the first edition in book form was first published simultaneously in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York (with illustrations by M. B. Kork) and by William Heinemann in London (with illustrations by Charles Robinson). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson.. The Secret Garden.. London: William Heinemann, 1911, 1911.
Price: US$4162.81 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression. The Secret Garden first appeared in a publication aimed at adults, The American Magazine, serialized between November 1910 and August 1911, one of the earliest examples of a children's story first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership. The book was first published in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York, followed a few weeks later by the UK edition. The American edition was illustrated by M. B. Kork, whereas the English edition has illustrations by the prolific illustrator Charles Robinson, whose younger brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson also became illustrators. Born in Manchester, England, Burnett moved several times back and forth between England and America, before adopting US citizenship in 1905. The novel was mainly written in Buile Hill Park while visiting Manchester in 1904, but published while she was living in Plandome Manor, New York. During her lifetime her rags-to-riches story Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was a publishing sensation, although over the years The Secret Garden has retained the popularity that Little Lord Fauntleroy has lost. Grolier Children's 100, 64. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery, titles and decoration to spine gilt with onlaid morocco flower pieces, pictorial block to front board gilt with onlaid morocco floral pieces, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson.. The Secret Garden.. London: William Heinemann, 1911, 1911.
Price: US$4162.81 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression. The Secret Garden first appeared in a publication aimed at adults, The American Magazine, between November 1910 and August 1911 - one of the earliest examples of a children's story first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership. The book was first published in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York, followed a few weeks later by the UK edition. The American edition was illustrated by M. B. Kork, whereas the English edition has illustrations by the prolific illustrator Charles Robinson, whose younger brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson also became illustrators. Born in Manchester, England, Burnett moved several times back and forth between England and America, before adopting US citizenship in 1905. The novel was mainly written in Buile Hill Park while visiting Manchester in 1904, but it was published while she was living in Plandome Manor, New York. During her lifetime, her rags-to-riches story Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was a publishing sensation, although over the years The Secret Garden has retained the popularity that Little Lord Fauntleroy has lost. Grolier Children's 100, 64. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt with onlaid morocco floral pieces, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, floral endpapers, gilt edges. With 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson. A few leaves lightly spotted, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom