Anne of Green Gables. by MONTGOMERY, L. M - 1908: Illustrated by M. A. and W. A. J. Claus.

Boston: L. C. Page & Company,, 1908. 'The dearest and most moving child since the immortal Alice'" - a superb copy Octavo. Original light purple vertical-grain cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, colour pictorial onlay to front board. Housed in a green half morocco solander case. Frontispiece and 7 plates after drawings by Mary Austin Claus. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A superb copy of this vulnerable publication. First edition, first impression, of the author's first novel. Published in April 1908, it was an immediate bestseller, with new printings nearly every month for the next two years. Upon publication, "Mark Twain wrote to congratulate Montgomery on the accidental adoptee, Anne Shirley - 'the dearest and most moving child since the immortal Alice'" (Grolier). Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, 58.