Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin-1903-First Edition.


WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1903


First Edition. 327, [1]pp. 7.5'' x 5.25''.


Original green pictorial cloth. 327, [1] pages. Blanck notes the following 2nd printing points as tentative: page 325, "Don't turn in at the side"; page 327, "October sun." Binding B, with type at base of spine 1/8'' high. Binding with a touch of bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner’s signature dated 1995 on front free endpaper. Overall, a fine, first edition, first printing (as tentatively noted in BAL), of the bucolic classic, a beautiful copy. Now preserved in a custom archival mylar.


From its publication, REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM was a hit, and has been adapted into a 1909 Broadway play, three star-studded films - the first starred Mary Pickford, the second Shirley Temple - and even an anime.