Anne of Green Gables.

by MONTGOMERY, L. M.

$17,099 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Boston: L. C. Page & Company,, 1908. It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? First edition of the author's first novel, correctly dated April 1908 on the copyright page for the first printing. It was an immediate best-seller and new printings appeared nearly every month for the next two years. "Mark Twain wrote to congratulate Montgomery on the accidental adoptee, Anne Shirley - 'the dearest and most moving child since the immortal Alice'" (Grolier). Copies have been noted in various colours of cloth, without priority. Octavo. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 7 plates. Publisher's 8-page adverts at end. Original pinkish-brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, pictorial label and blind rules on front cover, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Contemporary laundry discount voucher loosely inserted. Loan label of William Boeringer Straube (1873-1958) to front pastedown; also with offsetting, label sometime removed from front free endpaper, with surface wear. Faint spots to spine, minor wear to ends and corners, joints and label rubbed, tiny chip to upper left corner of label, front inner hinge partially split, remaining sound, trivial short split to rear inner hinge, marks to a couple of earlier leaves, closed marginal tear to pp. 51/2. A very good copy. Grolier Children's 100, 58; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 124.

• Year: 1908
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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