Description
Very Good dust jacket, illustrated with man, boy and a dog, soiled at edges and spine, clipped lower flap, price on the upper corner is 13s 6d net. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ binding is orange and tan cloth over boards, decorated with blue lettering, some soiling from age on edges and spine. Decorated end papers. Color frontispiece and color and black-and-white illustrations by Harry Toothill. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.5″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
Stated: “First Published in this Edition 1962”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated by HARRY TOOtHill, with full-color plates and line drawings ‘The best version of the Cinderella story in modern idiom that exists.’ This is how Marghanita Laski describes Mrs. Hodgson Burnctt’s Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is a famous story, its name a legend, known more often by repute rather than by reading. Yet to experience this story at first hand is unexpectedly pleasant and exciting. Written nearly eighty years ago, it is a ‘period’ piece of great charm and distinction, telling of a small boy, living on the edge of poverty in New York, who suddenly becomes an English lord with vast lands and wealth. It is not, however, just a story of dreams come true. The period allows the events and the transformation to be more extreme than they would be today; but the supreme interest hinges on the character of the boy who is unspoilt by his change in fortune. The reputation both of the book and its hero suffered when it was made into a sentimental play for adults. It is hoped that its restoration ○ The Children’s Illustrated Classics will readjust the balance and once again justify the book a one of the best stories of child-life in a period particularly rich in such literature, and in which it was quickly recognized , incidentally, as a classic.
