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Montgomery, L.M.. The Golden Road. L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beige covers with pastedown illustration, gold lettering. Soiling, rubbing to covers,tears to spine, front and back hinges are cracked. Frontis illustration with tissue guard, No markings or writing. 369 pages, plus publisher's ads.
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. THE GOLDEN ROAD. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, 1913.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Stated first impression on copyright page. In lightly soiled mint green boards with pastedown illustration on front panel, and gilt lettering. Spine corners beginning to fray just a tad but binding crisp and tight overall. With a smeared 1913 signature, otherwise contents are surprisingly crisp and clean. With colored frontis. A terrific copy of this uncommon title.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
MONTGOMERY, L. M.. The Golden Road. L.C. Page & Company, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, first impression so stated, Octavo, light green cloth over boards with pastedown illustration on front cover, gilt stamped lettering. The sequel to Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Story Girl; publisher ads in rear. Good, moderate shelf wear, hinges cracked with mesh showing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The book is bound in beige cloth with a colour plate on the front cover & faded gilt letters on the spine & front cover. Spotted wear on the plate. Light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. Foxing on the back & front of the frontispiece and on the title page. Previous owners ink name & date (1913) on the back of the frontispiece. The binding is tight the contents clean. States: "First Impression, August, 1913". Date MDCCCCXIII on the title page.
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Montgomery, L.M.. The Golden Road. L.C. Page & Co., 1913.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light soiling to cloth. A nice, square copy.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L. M.. The Golden Road. L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION in taupe cloth with pasted illustration and gilt titles, 369[4]pp. Near Fine with only a couple little faults: (1) an owner signature and old dealer notations in pencil on the ffep; (2) a tattered bottom page edge on the ffep. This is a beautifully preserved copy of this book by the famed author of "Anne of the Green Gables" and other "Anne" books. The pasted illustration on the front of the book is near perfect - often a major fault with this title. Also laid in is a promotional piece for readers to obtain a photogravure portrait of Ms. Montgomery - perfectly preserved. Will be hard to find a nicer collectible copy.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L.M. The Golden Road. L.C. Page & Company, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first impression. Octavo light brown cloth, lettered in gilt and with a color pictorial cover onlay. Cover onlay and frontispiece by George Gibbs. Former owner's name on the front free endpaper. Covers just slightly dulled, and a few small blemishes on the cover onlay, else a very good to near fine copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
MONTGOMERY, L. M.. The Golden Road. L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: x, 369 p. + 4 p. of ads. 20 cm. Colour frontispiece by George Gibbs. Cloth hardcover with pressed-on colour illustration. Moderate wear. Rubbing to illustration. Hinges cracked internally. As a child, Montgomery learned many stories from her Great Aunt Mary Lawson which she later used in The Golden Road. Some Montgomery scholars feel the TV series Road to Avonlea never really did justice to the depth and colour of the characters in this book. The road referred to in the title is "the golden road of youth."
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
MONTGOMERY, L.M.. THE GOLDEN ROAD.. L.C. Page & Co., Boston. 1913. First impression., 1913.
Price: US$165.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 369pp + 4pp publisher's adverts. A good sound hardback copy in original gilt titled tan cloth boards with blindstamped borders & colour plate by George Gibbs pasted down to front. Boards slightly edge worn with minimal surface scuffing. New endpapers. Previous owner's name to half title page.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Montgomery, L.M.. The Golden Road. L.C. Page & Co., 1913.
Price: US$249.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: States First Impression, August, 1913
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
MONTGOMERY, L. M.. The Golden Road.. L. C. Page, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: x, 369 [4, ads] pp. With frontispiece in colour by George Gibbs. 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration. First edition. Pencil ownership inscription; light rubbing at the corners of the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in original light green vertically ribbed cloth with blind stamped rectangular borders; stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and on the spine. With a lovely frontispiece in color of Sara Stanley protected by a tissue guard. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. A very handsome, collectible first edition of this novel. As a child, Montgomery learned many stories from her great aunt Mary Lawson. She later used these inThe Story Girl and The Golden Road.[1] L.M. Montgomery married on July 5, 1911 and leftPrince Edward Island. She arrived at Leaskdale, Ontario in October, where her husband served as the minister ofSt. Paul's Presbyterian Church. She began work on this novel on April 30, 1912, and gave birth to her first son on July 7. She finished the novel on May 21, 1913, saying "I have been too hurried and stinted for time. I have had to write it at high pressure, all the time nervously expecting some interruption". The book was published on September 1.[2]It was dedicated to Mary Lawson. (Wikipedia) "Despite the fact that Montgomery published over twenty books, "she never felt she achieved her one 'great' book."[6]Her readership, however, has always found her characters and stories to be among the best in fiction.Mark Twain said Montgomery's Anne was "the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortalAlice."[113]Montgomery was honoured by being the first female in Canada to be named a fellow of theRoyal Society of Arts and was investedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.[114]However, her fame was not limited to Canadian audiences.Anne of Green Gables became a success worldwide. For example, every year, thousands of Japanese tourists "make a pilgrimage to a green-gabled Victorian farmhouse in the town of Cavendish on Prince Edward Island."[115]In 2012, the original novelAnne of Green Gables was ranked number nine among all-time best children's novels in a survey published bySchool Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience.[116]The British public ranked it number 41 among all novels inThe Big Read, a 2003 BBC survey to determine the "nation's best-loved novel."[117]The British scholar Faye Hammill observed that Montgomery is an author overshadowed by her creation as licence plates in Prince Edward Island bear the slogan "P.E.I. Home of Anne of Green Gables" rather than "P.E.I. Birthplace of L.M Montgomery.[118]Much to Montgomery's own annoyance, the media in both the United States and Canada tried to project the personality of Anne Shirley onto her." (Wikipedia) First Edition with"First Impression, August, 1913" on the copyright page and no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Montgomery, L.M.. The Golden Road. L.C. Page, Boston, 1913.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Color frontispiece by George Gibbs. x, 369, [1], [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, with color illustration by Gibbs set in front cover panel, a very good copy Color frontispiece by George Gibbs. x, 369, [1], [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.