Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Illustrated Holiday Edition
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. [SIGNED] [JUVENILE]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on free front endpaper. Published "October 1910" on copyright page, later printing. 12mo; x, [ii], [1-3] 4-327; red pictorial cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and flowers, with a small vignette of a house on the front; gilt lettering and decoration on the spine; inscription on ffep by author “ ‘Where Joy & Duty Clash Let Duty go to Smash.’ Extract from Rebecca’s composition Kate Douglas Wiggin”; color fp and 8 glazed photographic illustrations from the play; light scuffing to edges and corners, spine darkened; near fine. (BAL 22654). Item #2029
Kate Douglas Wiggin’s (1856-1923) classic story about Rebecca, a young girl who lives on a farm in Maine with her two aunts, one stern and one kind. First published in 1903, this is a later Holiday Edition.
Price: $400.00