Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Illustrated Holiday Edition

Boston / New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1910. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Yohn, F.C. [Frederick Coffey]. First printing of the Illustrated Holiday Edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, edges rubbed and lightly foxed, pencil name and address on front endpaper. 1910 Hard Cover. 327 pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, color frontispiece by F.C. Yohn, eight plates in text from photographs of the play. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her two stern aunts in the village of Riverboro in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. She faces many trials in her young life, but comes through them with more wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca. Eric Wiggin, a great nephew of the author, wrote updated versions of several Rebecca books, including a concluding story.