Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 46

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(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Montgomery, Lucy. Anne of Green Gables. Illustrated by M. A. and W. A. J. Claus. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered sea green cloth with pictorial portrait vignette of Anne on front cover, very light rubbing to extremities and a few faint soil marks, otherwise bright; publisher's catalogue bound in rear, early penciled owner's signature on front flyleaf. Boston, 1908
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first edition, second impression of montgomery's beloved tale of an orphan girl. The inspiration for the novel came from a story she remembered from childhood about a couple who were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy, yet decided to keep her. She likewise drew upon her own childhood experiences in rural Prince Edward Island. Montgomery used a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit, clipped from an American magazine and pasted on the wall above her desk as the model for main character Anne Shirley. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 371-72; Peter Parley to Penrod, 124.