Rainbow Valley
by Montgomery, L. M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Frederck A. Stokes Company, 1919. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. viii, 341pp. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Illustrated panel to front board, rubbed with a few chips. Shelfwear and rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Corner bumped. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Textblock fore and lower edges untrimmed. Gift inscription on ffep dated in the year of publication, else internally clean. very good American first edition published nearly simultaneously with the McClelland & Stewart edition in Canada. Russell 345. Lechowick P 70. 1919
Synopsis
Rainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127504
- Title
- Rainbow Valley
- Author
- Montgomery, L. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederck A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature|Montgomery|Canadian Fiction|Can Lit|Anne of Green Gables|L.M. Montgomery
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Aquila Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
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