The Romantick Lady: The Life Story of an Imagination

xvi, 423 pp. Bound in dark green publisher's cloth stamped in gilt to spine and front cover. Very Good with light wear and soiling to covers; spine faded and frayed at head and tail. Binding shaken, first gathering loose. Light foxing and dust-soiling to textblock edges, faint scattered foxing to margins throughout. October 1927 newspaper clipping in three parts laid in and previously paperclipped to half-title, resulting in offsetting and rusty clip imprint to first three leaves and slight dent to following thirty pages. Publisher's advertisement tipped to back pastedown. Dust jacket lacking, though partially preserved; front panel tipped to back endpaper.

Vivian Burnett, much loved by his mother, was the model for her popular character Little Lord Fauntleroy. This book, his biography of her, was published three years after her death in 1924. The New York Times review laid in declares that "one must go far to find a lovelier picture than the one Mr. Burnett draws of his mother's relations with her children." Below his affectionate inscription, another hand has written in ink: "Constance Buel's husband - Vivian Burnett.