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Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: William Heinemann, 1911.

First British edition. Octavo. 306 pages plus six page publisher's catalog. Eight full-color plates by Robinson.

Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decorative flourish. Clear glassine protective dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear, including minor bumping to the spine ends and corners. Lightly bumped corners. Gilt titles at the spine ends lightly rubbed. Mild dust-soiling to the textblock edges. Minor scattered foxing to the textblock. Front free endpaper with two vertical fold lines. Overall, a very good copy of a true children's classic.

"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." (Chapter 1)


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