 Author Name: BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON; ILLUSTRATED BY REGINALD B. BIRCH .
Title: SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S.
Binding: Decorative Boards
Book Condition: Very Good
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
Seller ID: 4759
Sara Crewe has been at "Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies," London since she was eight. With her father being a rich businessman, going into the Army and her mother gone, her father placed her in this 'select' school. Miss Minchin was a tall and large woman, with fishy eyes and cold hands. Unfortunately while in the army Sara's father intrusted his fortunes to a crook. Somewhere through Sara's 3rd year with Miss Minchin, she was advised Sara's father had died. The horrible Miss Minchin took Sara's room away and put her to work, (Shirley Temple's "The Little Princess" 1939, was based on this story). With 6 full page drawings by Reginald B. Birch (British illustrator).
Grey cloth boards and spine, red and black decorations and lettering, bright round gilt and red illustration of Sara. Spine ends and corners rubbed with mild fraying. Mild soil to boards. Christmas 1893 inscription to e.p. Hinges cracked, text block tight in covers. Few closed edge tears, main one to page 15, one 1 inch lower edge tear, and one 2" inch side edge tear. Else clean and tight. 8 pgs. of Ads to rear. 83 pp., 8 vo. In protective archival polyester wraps.
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