A news story by Randy Boswell has appeared in a number of newspapers across Canada yesterday and today.
One of the books most coveted by collectors of Canadian literary history—a first edition copy of Anne of Green Gables—is to be sold at auction next week in New York for what could be a record price.
The vintage edition of the classic novel by P.E.I.-born author Lucy Maud Montgomery, first printed in April 1908 by the Boston publishing house L.C. Page, is expected to fetch up to $25,000 U.S. at Sotheby’s Dec. 11 sale of rare books and manuscripts.
A top hammer price would just surpass the $24,000 record set in 2005 for another inaugural copy of the famous work.