first edition Hardcover
1927 · New York/London
by Burnett, Vivian
New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge a little weak, but otherwise a good sound copy, with some spotting/foxing on the top edge of the text block; small vintage bookplate on the front pastedown]. (B&W plates) A biography of the author of the children's classics "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fauntleroy," written several years after her death by the younger of her two sons (who was said to have been the model for the latter character). Obviously Vivian had unfettered access to his mother's papers -- the book quotes extensively from her correpondence (truncated)