Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON. The Secret Garden. Illustrated by Maria Kirk with 5 tipped-in color plates. 8vo, publisher's decorated green cloth gilt, paper label to front cover, small chip to label, otherwise fine; discreet booklabel to rear pastedown, front inner hinge repaired. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1911)

Additional Details

deluxe illustrated gift issue. The first edition was issued in August 1911 simultaneously in two styles, a blue cloth binding without illustrations and a green cloth binding with frontis and three inserted plates. This issue (not in BAL) printed shortly after in a larger format with the five plates. A fine copy. BAL 2115.