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Sale 426: Fine Books in All Fields - Wizard of Oz - Illustrated Books - Fine Printing (#426) 04/15/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 04/15/2010 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #20 Anne of Green Gables

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$5,000

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Description

Title:

Anne of Green Gables

Author:

Montgomery, L[ucy] M[aud]

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

L.C. Page & Company

Date Published:

1908

Description:

(iii)-(x), 429, [1], +8 ad pp. Frontispiece and seven full page plates by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus. (8vo) 7½x5¼, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated label on front cover. First Edition.

Rare first printing of this classic children's tale with "First Impression, April, 1908" on copyright page. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 124.

Condition:

Extremities worn, 1" split at foot of front joint, cover illustration faded, hinges cracked; lacking front free endpaper and half title, frontispiece and title page partially detached, some marginal soiling and staining; else good.

Item#:

209801

Headline:

Anne of Green Gables First Edition
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