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Click to view full description | 1. | (Burnett, Frances Hodgson). Carpenter, Angelica Shirley and Jean Shirley FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: Beyond the Secret Garden
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, (1990). Third printing. Fine in pictorial boards and dust jacket. A life of the Victorian children's author for juvenile readers. Extensive quotations from Burnett's works are woven into a text generously illustrated with drawings and never-before published photographs.
A lovely introduction to the creator of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, THE LITTLE PRINCESS and THE SECRET GARDEN whose already soaring popularity has reached new heights with the recent stage and film adaptations of her books.
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| 2. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson LINDSAY'S LUCK
London: Frederic Warne and Co., [1888-89]. First edition thus. Authorized uniform series, ''Mrs. Burnett's Earlier Stories.'' Blue cloth lettered and ruled in black to front, in gilt to spine Very good plus, faded rubber-stamped identification to front free endpaper, previous owner's brief notation to half-title, covers mildly soiled and worn, spine slightly darkened; no dust jacket.
Novelette ''written in my girlhood years,'' first appeared in Scribner's in 1878, then in an unauthorized U.S. collection (1878-79); this and other ''small waifs and strays'' were issued thus so that Burnett could identify them as journeyman efforts.
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| 3. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Early edition. Large octavo. With Reginald B. Birch's drawings reproduced as vignettes and plates, including a tissue-guarded frontis. Owner's pencilled name to endsheet and to a fly-leaf, another's inked name to a flyleaf, light wear to the extremities, mild soiling to covers, thus about near fine; in grey pictorial cloth with red and black illustrations and lettering; brown endsheets.
Burnett's classic, first published serially in St. Nichols Magazine during 1885, released as a book the following year, and oft-adapted for stage and screen, with Mary Pickford, Freddie Bartholomew and Ricky Schroeder among the limners of Ceddie Erol.
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| 4. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson PICCINO: And Other Child Stories
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First edition, first printing. 1894-dated gift inscription to front free endsheet, hint of wear at the extremities, else a fresh, fine, lovely example; in olive pictorial cloth illustrated in green, gilt and orange; pale yellow endsheets. 203 pages, plus 16 pages of illustrated ads.
Comprises: ''Two Days in the Life of Piccino''; ''The Captain's Youngest''; ''Little Betty's Kitten Tells Her Story''; and ''How Fauntleroy Occurred.'' Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch: frontispiece, 7 integral plates, and 7 inserted plates reproduced in b&w.
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| 5. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson THE SECRET GARDEN
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, (copyright 1911). No edition noted. In green cloth with dark green and rose decoration, gilt lettering and rules, full-color front cover paste-on illustration. Hardcover. Very good plus: mild darkening to spine, very light wear at joints, tiny corner tear to front pastedown, faint corner creases to two plates, some very minor scattered soiling. No dust jacket.
''One of the most original and brilliant children's books of this century'' (Alison Lurie), here in a later printing of the first U.S. edition. Four full-color tipped-in plates (including tissue-guarded frontispiece) by M[aria] L. Kirk. 375 pages.
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| 6. | Burnett, Frances Hodgson; illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith IN THE CLOSED ROOM
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. First edition, first printing. About near fine: with soiling to covers, a band of fading to upper rear cover, very mild wear, bookseller's faint stamp to pastedown, areas of pale foxing within; in green cloth with gilt stamping and title cartouche, gilt top-edge.
Chilling, eloquent, powerfully affecting ghost story from the author of THE SECRET GARDEN and LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. Eight JWS color illustrations reproduced on coated stock inserts. Why is this haunting tale not better known?
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