REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM

Houghton, 1903. 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.