MONTGOMERY, L. M. “Anne of Avonlea” [L. C. Page & Company, 1909] 1st Printing

MONTGOMERY, L. M. Anne of Avonlea. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1909. First impression, September 1909. 7.5” x 5.25”, with frontispiece and cover in color by George Gibbs. Publisher’s original tan cloth lettered in gilt with mounted pictorial onlay to front board. The first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, continuing Anne Shirley’s story as a young schoolteacher in Avonlea and helping cement Montgomery as one of the defining voices in twentieth-century children’s literature. Binding moderately worn and soiled with rubbing to extremities. Front hinge starting. Very Good.