(CHILDRENS LITERATURE) MONTGOMERY LM Anne of Green Gables

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(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) MONTGOMERY, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. Illustrated with 8 plates including frontispiece by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus, 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. 8vo, original gilt-lettered brown cloth, pictorial label on front cover, corners bumped, light fraying to joints and spine tips, paper label with abrasions and scratches; hinges cracked but holding, two ownership signatures at front, short closed tear to top blank margin of pp. 129-30, pen mark to rear pastedown. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1908

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first edition, the rare first printing with "First Impression, April, 1908" on copyright page, and in the less common brown cloth, rather than green. Montgomery's tremendously successful debut novel. Peter Parley to Penrod p. 124.