THE ANNOTATED SECRET GARDEN; Frances Hodgson Burnett / Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. First U.S. Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine +/Fine +. Color & B/W images. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 3/4"), dark brown pictorial boards with irridescent green lettering & small colored green image of the girl--Mary Lennox--in the garden on front cover; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; price $35.00); illustrated throughout with a variety of period and later color plates and in-text colored & B&W images; beige endpapers; xl, [xli-xlii] + 288 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 8 oz. English-born, American novelist and playwright Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) created memorable characters and an entrancing setting in her classic, The Secret Garden. <br /> <br /> Burnett also wrote two other famous "children's" classics: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) and A Little Princess (1905). She maintained a lovely rose garden in Maytham Hall in Kent, which provided inspiration for her book's secret garden set in Yorkshire. <br /> <br /> Very Fine copy apart from a wee bump to the upper right corner of the front cover and corresponding minute edgewear to its dj's corner. No previous owners' or remainder marks.