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Chronicles of Avonlea
by Montgomery, L. M
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. very good. 1st Impression, 1st edition. [6] 306 +(4), 2 pp catalogue at rear. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board, with portrait illustration. Light shelfwear to boards and rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. A few wrinkles to cloth. Rear panel of jacket detached from spine but present. Most of top 1.75" and bottom 4" of spine perished with a few additional chips to edges of jacket (chip to rear panel affecting a few words). Rear panel advertisement "Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, the Story Girl, Kilmeny of the Orchard". Textblock edges slightly foxed, fore-edge uncut. Previous owner's signature dated in the year of publication on ffep. Endpapers and first few pages light foxed with a few additional bits of foxing internally, else a clean copy. very good An exceptional L.M. Montgomery rarity in the dust jacket. Until this copy, and a better example,in this catalogue, the jacket of the true first edition of Chronicles of Avonlea had not been seen by us. Unrecorded in Editions and Impressions. Although the jacket spine is missing portions, the remainder of the jacket is virtually complete and the front panel illustration remains bright and unfaded. The light green boards are one of two variants, the other being tan Lechowick P 43. Russell 222 See Editions and Impressions. 1912
Synopsis
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features a number of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. The book is dedicated: "To the memory of MRS WILLIAM A. HOUSTON, a dear friend who has gone beyond."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132574
- Title
- Chronicles of Avonlea
- Author
- Montgomery, L. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L.C. Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|L.M. Montgomery|Anne of Green Gables|Short Stories
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- A.N.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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