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THBLittle Lord Fauntleroy First Ed & Racketty Packetty House 1886 & 1906
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These two books by Frances Hodgson Burnett are Little Lord Fauntleroy and Rackety-Packetty House; Little Lord Fauntleroy is a first edition, first issue and Rackety-Packetty House is a first edition.
Sizes: 6 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. 8 1/2 x 7 in.
Little Lord Fauntleroy was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's in 1886. The illustrations by Reginald Birch created a fashion trend for boys that lasted until the turn of the century: a double-breasted tunic or jacket worn with a large round collar, a floppy bow, and shorts or knickers, and often with a round straw hat and a haircut with bangs. It is also a first edition, first issue because it was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York in 1886, it has the De Vinne imprint on 210, and it has “12” on page 177 and “14”on page 209. (See BAL 2064.)
The book has a decorated spine and front cover, brown endpapers, a half-title, an illustrated frontis by Reginald Birch, then the title and copyright pages, a three-page List of Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, 209 pages of text, and fourteen pages of ads at the rear, including ads for Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, The Works of Jules Verne, with a great drawing of his rocket ship to the moon, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
The plot centers around Ceddie, who lives with his American mother. His long-dead father was a British earl disowned by his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, who disapproved of all Americans. With his sons dead, the earl decides to recognize Ceddie as his heir. The stern and ill-tempered old man is soon won over by Ceddie's kindness and honesty. As the family begins to come together, trouble arrives when another woman insists her son is the earl's true heir, and conflicts develop over who is the rightful heir.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) was a British-born author who moved to America at the end of the Civil War, her family ran onto hard times, so she turned to writing to earn money. Her first story was published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1868, she was published regularly in Godey’s, Scribner’s Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar, and she is best known for her three children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Little Lord Fauntleroy was the Harry Potter of his time and Burnett was as celebrated for creating him as J. K. Rowling is for creating Harry Potter.
Walter Harrison Cady (1877 - 1970) was an American illustrator best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he moved to New York after his father was killed and he became a cartoonist for Life magazine, and his Peter Rabbit comic strip, which was based on Thornton Burgess' Peter Cottontail stories, was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate in August 1920; Cady had a long association with Burgess, illustrating the writer's books and his daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories. Their partnership spanned five decades, and in the late 20’s, Cady wrote several of his own books, with his own illustrations.
Reginald Birch (1856 - 1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the hero of Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion.
Little Lord Fauntleroy measures 8 1/2 x 7 inches wide and is in pretty good condition. It has a fairly tight binding, with wear old the spine and along the edges of the boards, wear on the endpapers, hinge cracks starting, the text and illustrations are actually in good shape, with just light browning here and there, and a desirable book for kids.
The full title of the second book is Rackety-Packetty House As Told by Queen Crosspatch, with Illustrations by Harrison Cady, and it was published by The Century Co. in 1906. It’s a first edition because there is just a single date on the copyright page, with no other printings listed, it has black letters on the spine and front cover, a paste-down cover and blank endpapers, a colored frontis and illustrated title page, twenty colored illustrations counting the frontis page, 130 pages of text, and it’s a children's book about two dollhouses and the Racketty family of dolls who live in them.
Racketty-Packetty House measures 6 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches wide and is pretty good condition, with a tight binding and clean illustrations, light soiling on the spine and covers, light wear on the heel and crown and at the tips, paper adhesions on the front endpapers, and faint browning on a couple of pages here and there.
The two books are a bargain. First issues of Little Lord Fauntleroy go up to $2800 or so on the rare book website we use, and they are nifty reads for children and adults.
#6270
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8 1/2 x 7 in.
