Emily of New Moon

Boston: Frederick A. Stokes, 1923.

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Hardcover. Copyright states - "Published August 25, 1923; Second printing, July 26, 1923". Frontispiece in color by M.L. Kirk. Blue ribbed cloth with green lettering on spine and color illustrated label mounted on the front board. Contemporary gift inscription on the front fly, a couple of pages roughly opened resulting in some marginal chips to a couple of facing pages, scattered foxing and soiling on pages and page edges, a very good copy in a near very good dust jacket with several small nicks and tears, and some overall soiling. The first Emily book, in the exceptionally scarce jacket.

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Item #87889 Emily of New Moon. L. M. MONTGOMERY.
Emily of New Moon

L.M. Montgomery
birth name: Lucy Maud Montgomery
born: 11/30/1874
died: 4/24/1942

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Canadian regional novelist, known for Anne of the Green Gables (1908), a sentimentalized story of a spirited, unconventional orphan girl who finds a home with an elderly brother and sister. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore