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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Frances Hodgson Burnett ~THE SECRET GARDEN ~ Custom Clamshell Case Only. [London,1911, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black Nuba & fine green cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine and dynamic GOLD STAMPED IMAGE OF THE LITTLE GIRL design on the side graphically inspired from the edition's iconic illustration. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. Magnificent for this Modern Classic. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Collection. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age, heavily-worn or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Size of this case: 16 cm width, 23.5 cm length, and 3 cm thick Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included Size can be adapted to soft or hardcover first editions.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. William Heinemann Ltd, 1911.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. London: Heinemann, 1911. Green cloth with gilt stamping. Good condition. Cloth worn along edges, tips exposed, foxing to endpapers, front hinge splitting, small pencil tracing on tissue paper. Rear flyleaf missing.The first appearance of a beloved children's book.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, 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.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: First English edition and first edition with these illustrations, 8vo, (viii), 306, 6 advertisement pp. 8 coloured plates with captioned tissues, some occasional light foxing. Original gilt decorated green cloth, recently recased with some repair to the spine ends. Originally published the same year in New York with different illustrations.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Robinson. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911.
Price: US$1508.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition. Near fine with minor edge-wear, previous two owner's book plates to front paste-down and to front free endpaper. Some small chipping to cloth at top and bottom of spine.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Green cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front and gilt titles and decoration to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: : Wear to soft corners, edges and chipped spine ends. Toned spine cloth. Marks to rear board - see photos. Cracked front and rear endpapers with netting visible, Boards held in place by binding bands. Prev owners name to ffep. Illustration to front paste down coloured in with pencil. Title traced onto frontis tissue guard with impression to title page. All illustrations present, although "That's fresh air" is located at page 192 and not page 200 as stated. Lightly toned unmarked pages DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 306, 6. Size: 8vo 20.5cm by 15cm.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. William Heinemann, London, 1911.
Price: US$2061.22 + shipping
Description: A nicely rebound first U.K. edition of the popular charming novel 'The Secret Garden', complete with the original colour illustrations by Charles Robinson. The first U.K. edition of this work. The novel was published in the U.S earlier the same year.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and seven colour plates, with all tissue guards present.Collated, complete.'The Secret Garden' didn't receive as much popularity as Frances Hodgson Burnett's other novels during her lifetime; however, its popularity has greatly increased since, and is now considered one of the best children's book from the twentieth century. Burnett wrote two other children's books, 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', and 'A Little Princess'. She also wrote adult novels, including 'The Shuttle', 'The Making of a Marchioness', and 'A Lady of Quality'.Complete with illustrations by Charles Robinson.Half-title is present.Six pages of adverts to the rear. Rebound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some odd spots. Faint tide mark to the margin of the plate facing page 300. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. THE SECRET GARDEN. William Heinemann, London, 1911.
Price: US$2317.71 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. 8vo. pp. vii + 306 + 6p.advertisements at rear. 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson with titled tissue guards. The frontispiece tissue guard has a booksellers ink stamp of George Robertson & Co.,Sydney on the rear discretely. the text has a little finger marking and mild discolourtion. Recently rebound in full dark green calf with classic marbled endpapers,decorative dentelles, hand sewn headbands,raised bands and red title labels. decorated in compartments. A stunning binding for a truely classic children's book.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in gilt, top edge turquoise. viii, 306, 6 [ads]pp. Very Good, edges foxed, rubbing and soiling to cloth, slight bowing to boards. Lacking the jacket. Burnett began work on this novel in 1909 while laying out a garden for a new home she was building in Long Island, New York. While she wrote quite a number of books over the course of her career, this is her most enduring work, serving as the basis for a film in 1993 and again in 2020.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. William Heinemann, London, 1911.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. viii, 306pp, 6 [ads]. Very Good+ with cloth lightly worn at the extremities, rubbed and with slight darkening to foot of spine. Minor offsetting from front and rear inner hinges. Contemporary owner gift inscription on half-title page. Small light damp stain at top margin of last illustration. Contents faintly rippled and slightly tanned. Overall bright and fresh. Burnett began work on this novel in 1909 while laying out a garden for a new home she was building in Long Island, New York. While she wrote quite a number of books over the course of her career, this is her most enduring work, serving as the basis for a film in 1993 and again in 2020.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. London Heinemann 1911, 1911.
Price: US$3027.42 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published by William Heinemann in London, 1911. A very good/near fine copy. One previous owner's name and date to the half-title. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white, some light foxing to the latter and preliminary pages. Top edge is fully blocked in green and complete. The eight beautiful full page colour plates by Charles Robinson are all complete and included, as is the tissue frontispiece. Some wear to the spine tips and corners. Overall, this is a very good or better copy and the basis for numerous films and television adaptations.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$3542.72 + 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$4186.85 + 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$4186.85 + 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