Lot Details
Lot 25
BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York: Scribner's, 1886. First edition with a five page letter from Burnett laid-in, the first issue (with the De Vinne imprint to the verso of the final text leaf and 14 pages of ads). Publisher's decorated cloth, housed in a fine purple morocco backed case. 8 x 6 inches (21 x 16 cm); 209 pp. A very good copy, the spine slightly darkened and rubbed at tips, the front hinge cracked, lightly toned but clean within.
A sound copy of this children's classic that caused a fashion craze much to the chagrin of many a little boy. The letter laid-in from Burnett is written to Robert Underwood Johnson, her editor at Century Magazine, and she implores him not to print a synopsis at the beginning of her stories. Grolier America 89; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 80-81; BAL 2064.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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