The Secret Garden. Illustrated in Colour by Charles Robinson. London: Heinemann, 1939. Later Edition. Publisher’s decorated green cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to preliminary leaves, otherwise a very nice copy.

The Secret Garden was first serialized, starting in autumn 1910, in The American Magazine, a publication aimed at adults.

First published in book-form in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York and simultaneously by Heinemann in London, with illustrations by Charles Robinson. 

Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children’s literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.