![]() ![]() Scarce original dust jacket without spine and rear panel and flap front panel and flap with light soiling and mild creasing. ![]() Cloth with slightest rubbing to spine ends and extremities, faint soiling and rubbing to front board. With dust jacket, cover and frontispiece color portraits of Anne by George Gibbs. Page selected a dozen of the reworked stories for this volume-but, without the author’s knowledge, the publisher also “retained copies of all the stories, which would lead to a major conflict” (Keeline, 44). Montgomery… selected the best of her stories and rewrote them ‘to fit into Avonlea life and people.’ Although this task did not please her, she was anxious to finish it so that she could ‘be free to attempt work more after own heart.” L.C. 12mo, original ribbed pale blue-green cloth gilt, mounted cover illustration, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Montgomery’s fifth book, a collection of short stories set in the idyllic world of her beloved heroine Anne Shirley, with front panel of scarce original dust jacket.Īfter writing two popular books about Anne Shirley-whom Mark Twain deemed “the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice”-Montgomery was reluctant to write, as her publishers wanted her to, “another sequel… describing college years… So the publisher offered to issue a volume of her best short stories, to be called The Chronicles of Avonlea. ![]() “SHE HAD A WAY OF GETTING ON WITH ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE”: FIRST EDITION OF MONTGOMERY’S CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA ![]()
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