REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM
by WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
1903. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903. Sm. 8vo., pictorial green cloth. First Edition, later issue, with publisher's spine imprint 1/8-inch high and line 13 on page 327 reading "bricks, glowing in the October sun." A Merle Johnson High Spot of American Literature. Basis for the 1939 movie, starring Shirley Temple, Jack Haley and Randolph Scott. Signed inscription by Wiggin on the front endpaper: "Yours faithfully, Kate Douglas Wiggin." Very Good (bright, minor rubbing, faint dampstain lower spine area). Enclosed in a custom-designed, leather and cloth clam-shell box, with a colorful floral image on the spine and a bucolic house scene- mostly in leather onlays- on the front cover. A great presentation of a famous book! $875.00.
Synopsis
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her two stern aunts in the village of Riverboro in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. She faces many trials in her young life, but comes through them with more wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antic Hay Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12266
- Title
- REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM
- Author
- WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1903
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About Antic Hay Books
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