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MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud (1874-1942). Anne of Green Gables. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1908.
8o. Illustrated by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus. (Gift inscription on front free endpaper.) Original light green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, mounted pictorial label on front cover (some light soiling, extremities rubbed, cover label slightly discolored). FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. "Anne of Green Gables is the most popular and enduring of a host of similar girls' stories published in the United States and Canada in the first years of the 20th cent..." (Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, pp. 371-72. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 124. RARE.
8o. Illustrated by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus. (Gift inscription on front free endpaper.) Original light green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, mounted pictorial label on front cover (some light soiling, extremities rubbed, cover label slightly discolored). FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. "Anne of Green Gables is the most popular and enduring of a host of similar girls' stories published in the United States and Canada in the first years of the 20th cent..." (Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, pp. 371-72. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 124. RARE.