Or What Happened At Miss Minchins
IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUSTWRAPPER
Sara Crewe Or What Happened At Miss Minchins
Charles Scribners, 1888.
First edition. Square 8vo. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, black and red. In the rare original pictorial dustwrapper, and the original glassine jacket. This copy with the advertisements in the second state, with Little Lord Fauntleroy in the "Forty-Third Thousand". Six full page illustrations Reginald B. Birch A fine copy, uncommonly fresh. In a good example of the rare dustwrapper, with loss to spine ends, a couple chips to the lower panel and some wear to the folds, occasionally strengthened with tape to verso. This notwithstanding, all printed elements of the upper and lower panels are complete, with only the "Sara" lost at the head of the spine, and the end of "Scribners" lacking from the base of the spine. The glassine jacket is also in good condition, with similar wear patterns to the printed wrapper.
The first edition of Sara Crewe, later retitled A Little Princess, in its rare original dustwrapper.
Sara Crewe is a short novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett on the back of the success of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). In 1902 Burnett adapted the story into a stage play and changed the title to The Little Princess. An expanded novelisation of the story titled A Little Princess was published in 1905 to long-lasting acclaim.
BAL notes that the first state of advertisements leads with "Fortieth Thousand - Little Lord Fauntleroy". However, as Little Lord Fauntleroy had already entered its forty-third thousand before 26th February 1888 (when Sara Crewe was published), it is likely that copies with both of the first two states of advertisements were available on publication day.
First editions of nineteenth century children's books are very rarely found with their original dustwrappers.
BAL 2067B.
Stock ID: 44248
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