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Price: US$54.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMP., octavo, pink buckram boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, 306pp, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling boards & spine, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name x2 in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to some gutters- some pgs potentially loose, minor foxing sporadically throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light greeen boards with color portrait on front. 306 pages. Light wear, smudges on front cover.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
L.M. Montgomery. Chronicles of Avonlea. Boston: Page Co.,, c January 1912, 1912.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Edge and surface wear to the cover. The image and letting on the cover is beginning to fade. The corners have been bumped and the boards are beginning to show there. There's a small tear at the top of the spine above the word 'Futher'. The pages have foxing and are beginning to yellow. There is some creasing to the spine. The binding is lose with several cracks throughout the book and a small tilt, but the pages are secure. The worse of the cracks is at the beginning of the book, at the cover, that is beginning to show the binding. There's a tear on the inside of the back cover at the spine that's beginning to show the binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
MONTGOMERY, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 306, [6] p. 20 cm. Colour frontispiece. Grey cloth hardcover with gold lettering and pasted-on illustration. Some wear and soiling to exterior, including rubbing to illustration. Frontispiece detached. Rear hinge cracked internally and there is no rear free endpaper. Soiling and thumbing to margins throughout. A well-read copy of this classic. The stories not published in this collection were used by Page to produce "Further Chronicles of Avonlea" without Montgomery's permission in 1920.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea.. Boston, L. C. Page & Company., 1912.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, "First Impression, June, 1912." Spine: Page, Boston. -- Stories. With frontispiece and cover in colour by George Gibbs, picturing "Anne Shirley." There is an owner gift note "given on her 14th birthday 1919." -- Hardcover, light green cloth. Condition: good-only (spine tips and corners rubbed; spine letters a bit dulled; cover lightly soiled; cover picture is rubbed; no jacket).
Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA. Boston:L. C. Page and Company, 1912.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston:L. C. Page and Company. 1912. 1st edition. 306pp+6pp ads. With colored frontispiece. Hardcover. Tan boards, very slightly soiled with a bit of light shelfware. Pastedown of portrait with a couple scratches. Internally, previous owners address label to inside front board but otherwise pages clean and bright. Binding is tight and hinges intact. Overall, a very good, clean copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L.C. Page & Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering, color plate on cover, top edge brown, fore-edge deckle. Color frontispiece and cover illustration by George Gibbs. This is the second printing (July, 1912) after the first edition one month earlier (June, 1912). . Spine mildly sunned with one small stain, corners lightly bumped, covers slightly soiled and color plate on cover mildly rubbed, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A very nice copy. VERY GOOD. Color Portraits. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 306 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA. L. C. Page, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA, by L. M. Montgomery; With Frontispiece and Cover in Colour by GEORGE GIBBS- 1912- L. C. Page & Co., Boston- ORIGINAL 1912 FIRST PRINTING (same 1912 date on title and copyright page with First Impression, June, 1912 STATED on copyright page with NO other dates or printings mentioned)- This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a reprint edition- BINDING is ORIGINAL light green cloth HARDCOVER with COLOR ILLUSTRATED COVER PANEL; binding and text are generally neat, clean and solid in VG- condition with NO extraneous writings or bookplates (only neatly done property ownership inscription upper front free page). Just light wear and normal age-coloration. Overall, a nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of the fairly UNCOMMON ORIGINAL 1912 FIRST PRINTING the 5TH BOOK written by L. M. MONTGOMERY 306 pages with COLOR ILLUSTRATED FRONTISPIECE by GEORGE GIBBS. BK21102430
Seller: The Maine Bookhouse, Oxford, ME, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L. C. Page & Company, 1912.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third printing, in first issue jacket. Octavo in sea-green cloth with gilt titles, color cover label, ruling in blind. Light rubbing to corners and spine tips, hint of fading to spine, else boards quite fresh and unworn; some foxing to textblock edges and to front and rear matter, text quite clean; chipping, light soiling, foxing, and tears to what is still a surprisingly well-preserved example of the scarce jacket. 306pp plus 3 pages of advertisements. Color frontispiece.
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L. C. Page & Company, Boston, MA, 1912.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition, stated "First impression, June, 1912", and also meeting other identification points as the first printing. Color portrait of Anne Shirley on frontispiece and front cover. Brown boards. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 306 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Light shelfwear to the cover. Bumped and rubbed. Corners are rounded. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001622.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
L.M. Montgomery. Chronicles of Avonlea. L.C. Page & Company, 1912.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA" by L.M. Montgomery. 1912 1st edition, 1st printing (with "First Impression June, 1912" stated on the copyright page); L.C. Page & Company; Boston. With a color frontispiece and front cover illustration by George Gibbs. From the title page: "In which Ann Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events including The Hurrying of Ludovic, Old Lady Lloyd, The Training of Felix, Little Joscelyn, The Winning of Lucinda, Old Man Shaw's Girl, Aunt Olivia's Beau, The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's, Pa Sloane's Purchase, The Courting of Prissy Strong, The Miracle at Carmody, and finally The End of a Quarrel. There are six pages of advertisements at the back. Condition: Some light soiling / staining to the covers and spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. There is an insignificant crack at the front hinge between the bibliography page and frontispiece - despite the crack, the front cover is still firmly attached and is not shaky. Nice interior - the text pages are lightly age-toned and clean with only an occasional, random light foxing spot and smudge to a small number of pages; page 181 has a tiny piece that has torn away at the bottom edge. There is an old inscription written in pen dated 1914 on the front end paper. The rear end paper has few illegible words written in pen in tiny handwriting at the upper-inner corner.below the handwriting is a small piece of paper remnant. Overall the book is in Good+ condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L.M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. L.C. Page & Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii],306, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering, portrait illustration. Very Good, with concave spine, wear to label on front board, light foxing to edges and endpapers, former owner's name scrawled on paste down in ink. Lacking dust jacket. The Canadian author's fifth book, a collection of stories.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. Chronicles of Avonlea. Boston L.C. Page & Company 1912, 1912.
Price: US$1308.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Impression, 1st edition. [6] 306 +(4), 2 pp catalogue at rear. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board, with portrait illustration. Light shelfwear to boards and rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. A few wrinkles to cloth. Rear panel of jacket detached from spine but present. Most of top 1.75" and bottom 4" of spine perished with a few additional chips to edges of jacket (chip to rear panel affecting a few words). Rear panel advertisement "Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, the Story Girl, Kilmeny of the Orchard". Textblock edges slightly foxed, fore-edge uncut. Previous owner's signature dated in the year of publication on ffep. Endpapers and first few pages light foxed with a few additional bits of foxing internally, else a clean copy. very good An exceptional L.M. Montgomery rarity in the dust jacket. Until this copy, and a better example,in this catalogue, the jacket of the true first edition of Chronicles of Avonlea had not been seen by us. Unrecorded in Editions and Impressions. Although the jacket spine is missing portions, the remainder of the jacket is virtually complete and the front panel illustration remains bright and unfaded. The light green boards are one of two variants, the other being tan Lechowick P 43. Russell 222 See Editions and Impressions.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada