Chronicles of Avonlea. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1912



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 in.; 190 x 128 mm). Half-title, color frontispiece by George Gibbs; slight marginal soiling. Publisher's tan ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial label on upper cover; upper cover soiled, corners torn. Original printed pictorial dust-jacket, in mylar; tears at head and foot of spine, and in edges but largely intact.

Mrs. C.S. Grattidge (signature on front pastedown)

Nickle Arts Museum, Editions & Impressions (2005) recording only pale green cloth

slight marginal soiling. Publisher's tan ribbed cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial label on upper cover; upper cover soiled, corners torn. Original printed pictorial dustjacket, in mylar; tears at head and foot of spine, and in edges but largely intact.
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First edition, first impression in an unrecorded tan cloth.