Sara Crewe, or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1918. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ DJ: The Book shows light wear to extremities; the expected tanning to the text pages; a former owner's name and date at the front free endpaper and a personalized bookplate at the front pastedown endpaper; slight spine lean; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Despite some flaws, remains sturdy and quite presentable. The DJ shows toning to the backstrip (the black titles thereon remain clear and easily legible) ; small loss to chipping at the extremities; a couple of small, faint smudges to the front panel; the price ($1.00) is intact. Serviceable and intact, but showing some wear. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.65 x 5.25 x 0.85 inches) . Color frontispiece and three duotone drawings by Reginald Birch scattered in the text. Language: English. Weight: 10 ounces. Blue cloth with yellow titles at the front panel and the backstrip. Hardback: with DJ. "A Little Princess" is a children's novel , first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play 'A Little Un-fairy Princess' based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas Magazine) with the full title A Little Princess. 'Sara Crewe tells the story of an orphan, placed in a boarding school (Miss Minchin's) by her father before he died suddenly and unexpectedly in India. It relates her ways of dealing with changes of circumstance, abuse, gossip, friendship, charity, surprises, and much more. Sara is peculiar, but I proves herself lovable. Like other Burnett heroines, Sara's story is sad, even tragic, but her ways of dealing with her circumstances are inspiring and uplifting. Truly a timeless classic. The U. S. National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number 56 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 114 pages .