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Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1903.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed October 1903. Fourth printing of 1st edition. Some fraying & chipping top & bottom of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "For . Conlon, Yours Sincerely, Kate Douglas Wiggin"
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1903.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owns name written inside. Some fraying at spine edges & corners. First page separating from front cover. Published October 1903. Contains all 1st issue points, fourth printing. P.324 "Don't turn in at the side" P. 327 "in the October sun" per BAL 22632. P.319/320 creased with small tear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "yours Sincerely Kate Douglas Wiggin "
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in dark green cloth with light green lettering and decoration in three colors printed on the cloth. Corners bumped, some rubbing to hinges, but overall quite good condition. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated only October 1908. 327 pages. This appears to be a 4th printing, with 'at the side' on page 325 line 9 (it was 'to the side' in the first printing) and with 'October Sun'on page 327 line 13 (it was 'October noon' in the first printing). Sunnybrook Farm was a quick success, with more than 7 printings between October and Dec of 1903. This copy has a 5 line quote from the book written out in Wiggin's own hand on the front endpaper, and signed by her beneath. No date on the signature - but her hand is distinctive and this is a nice clear example of her signature.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Signed Note. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1903.
Price: US$424.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original pictorial green cloth. First edition, later issue. With publisher's spine imprint in 1/16" type, p. 325 line 9 states "Don't go the side door" and p. 327, line 13 states "October sun." Binding A, # 3 according to BAL. The book itself is not signed, but a 2.5 x 3.5 " signed card with an autograph quotation is laid in. Points exposed, slightly canted, pages lightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Signed. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1903.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Early Issue. Hardcover. Signed by Author. "God bless Aunt Miranda! God bless the brick house that was! God bless the brick house that is to be!" From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition, early issue of this enduring and beloved classic of American children's fiction, Inscribed by Kate Douglas Wiggin on the front free endpaper. "To.with sincere regard / from the author / Kate Douglas Wiggin / March 1904". A bright, fresh, very good copy in decorated green cloth depicting the 'brick house' where Rebecca Rowena Randall lived with her aunts, yellow titles and decorations to the spine, dated title page and copyright page and line 13 on page 327 reading "bricks, glowing in the October sun." Small 8vo. 327 pp. Housed in a TBCL green Nuba slipcase. "May I thank you for Rebecca? I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday. Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Jack London in a letter to Kate Douglas Wiggin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
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.
WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. , 1903.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903. Sm. 8vo., pictorial green cloth. First Edition, later issue, with publisher's spine imprint 1/8-inch high and line 13 on page 327 reading "bricks, glowing in the October sun." A Merle Johnson High Spot of American Literature. Basis for the 1939 movie, starring Shirley Temple, Jack Haley and Randolph Scott. Signed inscription by Wiggin on the front endpaper: "Yours faithfully, Kate Douglas Wiggin." Very Good (bright, minor rubbing, faint dampstain lower spine area). Enclosed in a custom-designed, leather and cloth clam-shell box, with a colorful floral image on the spine and a bucolic house scene- mostly in leather onlays- on the front cover. A great presentation of a famous book! $875.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.