Description
Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, price-clipped, General Wear, sticker residue/abrasions, edge-wear, section missing at the top of rear. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, gilt stamped tree on the cover, gilt stamping on the spine, shelf-wear. Illustrated endpapers, ink writing dated Christmas ’72 on the front free endpaper. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Tasha Tudor can be fount throughout the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
SECRET GARDEN By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Illustrated by TASHA TUDOR. “It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place anyone could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick that they matted together. .. . No wonder it’s still, Mary whispered. I am the first person who has spoken in here for ten years.”
This is the secret garden, mysterious, walled and locked, that is the center of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beautiful and moving story of a lonely, willful little girl and how she finds friends, health and happiness when she comes to live in a great house on the Yorkshire moors. It is a story that has been loved by boys and girls since its first publication in 1912, never losing its charm, its magic, its deep satisfaction.
“It will rapt most children away, for after fifty years its spell is just as strong; a blend of power, beauty, vivid interest and honest goodness. Yes, if this is magic, it is g good magic.” – RUMER GODDEN, The New York Times Book Review
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
Frances Hodgson Burnett was a born storyteller, and even when the what an parking child living in Manchester, England, her greatest pleasure was in making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. When she was in her teens her family, in search of better fortune, moved to Tennessee and there young Frances had her first taste of success, for two of her stories were bought and published by an American magazine From that point on her career was assured and until her death in 1924 she wrote constantly and produced more than forty books and countless short stores.
About the illustrator: (from the dust jacket)
Tasha Tudor’s delicate color work, her charming pencil drawings many books have made friends all over this country. Children and grown-ups alike have been drawn to her nostalgic representation of a world of another age. In this book she has brought to life children of the early 1000’s who live in a timeless world of a secret garden.
Tasha Tudor lives in an old farm house in New Hampshire which is big chough to hold her four children and visiting friends and cousins. There are animals, too, who are part of the family, a garden, a grove of sugar maples and blue New Hampshire mountains in the distance.
