In an unusually fresh condition
Publication: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.
A very attractive example of the first edition of this celebrated children novel: in the original cloth, very bright.
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Burnett’s first children’s novel, in the original cloth here in lovely, bright condition.
First edition, first issue, with The De Vinne Press imprint at the verso of the last page of text and number 14 printed on the lower left margin of p. 209. This was Burnett’s first children’s novel, and originally appeared as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886.
Item number
2147
Quarto. Engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, vignettes throughout.
Binding
Original brown cloth, spine and cover decorated in black, red and gold, brown coated endpapers.
Condition
Small spot of rubbing to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in bright cloth and very fresh internally.
Tolstoy's own editing of his first novel: a lovely example, rare in original wrappers, of this second edition, specially adapted for children's reading and showing for the first time a different version from the standard text.
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