viii, 326 +[2] ad, 16 ad pp. Color portrait frontispiece with original tissue guard. (8vo) 19x12.8 cm (7½x5¼"), original tan cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated label on front panel, early pictorial dust jacket. First Printing. First Printing, with "First Impression, July, 1915" on copyright page. In nice example of an early jacket. The rear panel of the jacket lists four Avonlea books - Anne of Green Gables (398th thousand) through Anne of the Island (76th thousand), and then three more titles by the author, the latest being The Golden Road (30th thousand). With the illustrated bokplate of Kathryn Elizabeth Jacobsen. Very rarely found with jacket in any condition.
viii, 326 +[2] ad, 16 ad pp. Color portrait frontispiece with original tissue guard. (8vo) 19x12.8 cm (7½x5¼"), original tan cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated label on front panel, early pictorial dust jacket. First Printing. First Printing, with "First Impression, July, 1915" on copyright page. In nice example of an early jacket. The rear panel of the jacket lists four Avonlea books - Anne of Green Gables (398th thousand) through Anne of the Island (76th thousand), and then three more titles by the author, the latest being The Golden Road (30th thousand). With the illustrated bokplate of Kathryn Elizabeth Jacobsen. Very rarely found with jacket in any condition.
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