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The Secret Garden
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Charles Robinson [Illustrator]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1911. First Edition. Very Good. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140945871
- Title
- The Secret Garden
- Author
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Charles Robinson [Illustrator]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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