Anne of Green Gables. Boston: L.C. Page, 1908



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.; 190 x 130 mm). 8 plates including frontispiece by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus, 8 pp. of advertisements at end; occasional light marginal soiling. Publisher's dark brown ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial label on upper cover, in a mylar cover, in a brown cloth slipcase; some skilfull repair to upper joint and head of backstrip, lower outer corner of upper cover bumped.

Peter Parley to Penrod 124; Nickle Arts Museum, Editions and Impressions (2005)

occasional light marginal soiling. Publisher's dark brown ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial label on upper cover, in a mylar cover, in a brown cloth slipcase; some skilfull repair to upper joint and head of backstrip, lower outer corner of upper cover bumped.
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First edition, first impression of one of the most sought-after children's books published in America, this in the excessively rare dark brown cloth. Only eleven copies of the first impression, stating April 1908 on the copyright page, have appeared at auction in the last thirty-five years.