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Kate Douglas Wiggin. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. The Riverside Press, CAmbidge, 1903.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is very tight and clean with some minor edge wear and corner bumps.
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1903.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Original publisher's dark green cloth binding. Color illustrations and decorations on front cover and spine. Medium green lettering on front cover and spine. 5" x 7 1/2." 327 pages, complete. Former owner's name printed on a piece of paper tipped in on front pastedown: "Jerome A. Blanchard." Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, the small occasional mark, and the former owner's bookplate. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Printed by the Riverside Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American author, educator, social activist, and composer. Wiggin founded the first free kindergarten of San Francisco in 1878, the Silver Street Free Kindergarten. She devoted the rest of her life to the welfare of children and also helped establish over sixty kindergartens in San Francisco and Oakland with her sister, Nora Smith. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) is a children's novel and coming-of-age story about Rebecca Rowena Randall. Due to her family's financial hardships, Rebecca is sent to live with her two aunts, Miranda and Jane Sawyer, in the fictional town of Riverboro, Maine. Miranda is strict and disapproving, but Jane takes Rebecca under her wing and teaches her how to sew and cook and other household skills. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was adapted into a Broadway play in 1909 and adapted three times for film in 1917, 1932, and 1938.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very light shelf wear extremities. ; Bal 22632. First edition, first printing.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” by Kate Douglas Wiggin was first published by by Houghton, Mifflin and Company of Boston and New York and printed by The Riverside Press of Cambridge in 1903. This First Edition copy contains all the points of the first printing (Bibliography of American Literature – P. 325, line 9: .Don’t go to the side door; P. 237, line 13: .in the sun of that October noon; and first binding with spine imprint in letters 1/16 inch high. Included with this book is an authentic photo of, and signed by, Kate Douglas Wiggin. The book, which measures approximately 5 x 7 ½ inches, contains 327 pages and is hard bound in green cloth covered boards. The book’s pages are all in very good condition. The covers show minor signs of wear along the edges, corners and top and bottom of the spine. The signed photo of Kate Douglas Wiggin is lightly foxed, but rare. The illustrations above show the book’s front cover, it’s Title page, a two-page spread indicating the condition of the printed pages, and the signed photo of Kate Douglas Wiggin. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor. [Wikipedia]
Seller: Pages For Sages, Beachwood, OH, U.S.A.