Details

Title

Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Withington, Elizabeth

Publication Date

1944

Publisher

L.C. Page & Company

Place of Publication

Boston

Physical Description

print
vii,[3], 396, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 196 x 134 mm (20 cm.).

Edition

859th thousand.

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.
Minor wear; handwritten inscription top front end paper 'Hermina Redmond, May 4, 1945" in ink. Former owner: Hermina Redmond.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

"September, 1944, 859th thousand" - t.p. verso.
Blue-green cloth, with colour illustration (side view portrait of woman (printer's flaw on mouth), with brown woodgrain border) on upper board, title and author's name (in gold lettering): ANNE of GREEN GABLES L.M. MONTGOMERY; title and author's name (in gold lettering) at top of spine: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES [gold rule] MONTGOMERY ; PAGE [gold rule] BOSTON at bottom of spine.
Dust jacket: cream; front panel: double ruled gold rectangle at edges; single ruled rectangle framing portrait as on upper board (printer's flaw on mouth), and title and author's name (in gold lettering):ANNE of GREEN GABLES By L.M. MONTGOMERY; [double gold rule] [all in gold lettering] ANNE OF GREEN GABLES [gold rule] MONTGOMERY, at top of spine; PAGE [gold rule] BOSTON at bottom of spine [double gold rule]; back panel: [within double blue ruled rectangle in blue lettering] Novels by L.M. Montgomery, THE FOUR AVONLEA BOOKS, Anne of Green Gables (859th thousand) NEW EDITION... Anne of Avonlea (319th thousand)... Chronicles of Avonlea (110th thousand)... Anne of the Island... OTHER NOVELS, Kilmeny of the Orchard (85th thousand)... The Story Girl (56th thousand)... The Golden Road (34th thousand)...[double rule], L.C. PAGE & COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS.; front flap:[blue text]: The Eleventh GLAD Book, POLLYANNA'S PROTEGEE, By Margaret Piper Chalmers, author of "Sylivia's Experiment", "Babbee", Etc....; back flap: [within blue single ruled rectangle; all text in blue]: By the Author of The GLAD Books... MISS BILLY... MISS BILLY'S DECISION... MISS BILLY--MARRIED... Other Stories, THE TURN OF THE TIDE... CROSS CURRENTS.
Not listed in Russell, Russell and Wilmshurst's bibliography, 1986 (L.C. Page, New ed. 1931, reprinted 1940, 1943, 1947).

Topic

Prince Edward Island, fiction

Genre

Novel

Call Number(s)

677 AGG-PG-44