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	1.	Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.  THE SECRET GARDEN. Reprint Society, London, 1956 reprint. 250 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Charmingly illustrated in b&w by Ernest H. Shepard. Mary Lennox, a lonely and unhappy orphan sent to live with relatives in Yorkshire, helps to affect the recovery of her invalid cousin, Colin, with the help of a local boy, Dickon, and the neglected secret garden they restore to beauty. One page with small corner crease, very light edge wear, small water mark on top of textblock - faint dye mark at top of free rear endpaper, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear/wrinkling, very small chips at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small closed tear at bottom of front hinge, previous owner's name in light ink on front flap, light rubbing and soiling on rear panel. Very Good/Good Price: 25.00 USD
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	2.	Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.  RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE. AS TOLD BY QUEEN CROSSPATCH. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1961, reprint. 111 pp, 16mo (6 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Color illustrations by Harrison Cady (known for his work on the Thornton Burgess books). "Now this is the story of the doll family I liked and the doll family I didn't. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you don't see them do, you are very much mistaken. When people are not looking at them they can do anyting they choose. But they can only move about and talk when people turn their backs and are not looking. If any one looks, they just stop. Fairies know this and of course Fairies visit in all the dolls' houses where the dolls are agreeable...." The story of a little girl named Cynthia and her two doll houses/doll house families - those of the rundown Racketty-Packetty House and those of the Tidy Castle. Very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very small bump to top corner of boards. Dust jacket moderate wear/wrinklingtiny chips at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds - light edge wear elsewhere, tiny scuff on spine, very light rubbing, slight browning to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Good+ Price: 20.00 USD
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	4.	Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Illustrated by Spencer Baird Nichols and W.T. Benda.  THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA. Copp, Clark, Toronto, c1916. 55 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover (purple cloth with colour pastedown on front cover, gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, sepiatone and b&w illustrations, including tissue-covered frontispiece. A little hunchbacked boy travels to Bethlehem and is cured by the infant Jesus. Very light browning and tiny foxing marks on endpapers, previous owner's name and date in ink on free front endpaper and on verso of frontispiece, darkening to top of textblock, a few small scuff marks on front board picture, a few rub lines on rear board, light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, light fading to spine color, very light wear at corners. Very Good- Price: 15.00 USD
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