Nimbus Publishing, located in Halifax, has published several reprint editions and two manuscript editions of Montgomery’s books since 1998.
Contents
Anne of Green Gables (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Anne of Green Gables (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Emily of New Moon (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Anne of Avonlea (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Anne of the Island (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Anne of Windy Poplars (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2019)
“Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea” (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2023)
The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2024)
Additional Titles
Anne of Green Gables (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Green Gables Edition. Jacketed hardcover. 7 1/2” × 5 1/4”. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-55109-013-9. Cover photo by John Sylvester. Dedication included.
This edition, “produced exclusively for the Boutique Green Gables Gift Shop,” reprints the text from the 1925 UK edition published by George G. Harrap and Company in 1925.
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Anne of Green Gables (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Nimbus Classics. Trade paperback. 7 1/4” × 5”. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-55109-249-2. Cover photo by John Sylvester. Dedication included.
This edition, like the hardcover Green Gables Edition, reprints the text from the 1925 UK edition published by George G. Harrap and Company in 1925.
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Emily of New Moon (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998)
Nimbus Classics. Jacketed hardcover. 7 1/2” × 5 1/4”. viii, 351 pp. ISBN 1-55109-239-5. Dedication included.
This edition is a facsimile of the original edition of the novel, published in 1923. The cover photo is of Martha MacIsaac as Emily in the television series Emily of New Moon (1998–2003).
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Anne of Avonlea (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Nimbus Classics. Trade paperback. 7 1/4” × 5”. iv, 276 pp. ISBN 978-1-55109-406-2. CAN$10.95. Cover photo by John Sylvester. Dedication included; epigraph omitted.
This edition reprints the text from the edition published by Bantam Seal in 1976/1992.
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Anne of the Island (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Nimbus Classics. Trade paperback. 7 1/4” × 5”. iv, 243 pp. ISBN 978-1-77108-407-9. CAN$10.95. Cover photo by John Sylvester. Dedication included; epigraph omitted.
This edition reprints the text from the edition published by Bantam Seal in 1976/1992.
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Anne of Windy Poplars (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2016)
Nimbus Classics. Trade paperback. 7 1/4” × 5”. vi, 258 pp. ISBN 978-1-77108-408-6. CAN$10.95. Cover photo by John Sylvester. Dedication omitted.
This edition reprints the text from the edition published by Bantam Seal in 1981/1992.
Site owner’s collection: Undated printing (one copy).
Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2019)
Edited by Carolyn Strom Collins
Introduction (1–16) and “Reader’s Guide to Symbols and Notes” (17) by Carolyn Strom Collins.
Trade paperback. 8 1/4” × 5 3/4”. 348 pp. ISBN 978-1-77108-721-6.
This edition consists of an annotated transcription of L.M. Montgomery’s manuscript to Anne of Green Gables, housed at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown.
Site owner’s collection: 1st printing (one copy). Cover image courtesy of Nimbus Publishing.
“Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea” (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2023)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. Trade paperback. 6 7/8” × 4 3/8”. 632 pp. ISBN 978-1-77471-262-7. USD/CAN$15.95. Cover artwork by Briana Corr Scott. Anne of Green Gables dedication included; Anne of Avonlea dedication and both epigraphs omitted.
This omnibus edition reprints the texts of Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea from the plates of previous Nimbus editions that draw on the 1925 UK edition of Anne of Green Gables published by George G. Harrap and Company and the 1976/1981 edition of Anne of Avonlea published by Bantam Seal.
Site owner’s collection: 1st printing (one copy).
The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2024)
Edited by Carolyn Strom Collins
Introduction (1–12) and “Reader’s Guide to Symbols and Notes” (12) by Carolyn Strom Collins.
Trade paperback. 8 1/4” × 5 3/4”. iv, 275 pp. ISBN 978-1-77471-275-7.
This edition consists of an annotated transcription of L.M. Montgomery’s manuscript to The Blue Castle, housed at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown.
Site owner’s collection: 1st printing (one copy). Cover image courtesy of Nimbus Publishing.
Additional Titles
Nimbus Publishing has released several more Montgomery-related titles since 1991, including two collections of Montgomery’s short stories: After Many Years: Twenty-One “Long-Lost” Stories (2017), selected and edited by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christy Woster, and Around the Hearth: Tales of Home and Family (2022), edited by Joanne Lebold and originally selected by Rea Wilmshurst. Dan Soucoup’s anthology The Finest Tree and Other Christmas Stories from Atlantic Canada (2014) contains Montgomery’s 1902 short story “Aunt Cyrilla’s Christmas Basket.”
Trade non-fiction titles released by this publisher include Nancy Rootland’s Anne’s World, Maud’s World: The Sacred Sites of L.M. Montgomery (1996); A Writer’s Garden: Inspired Photographs with Selected Writings by L.M. Montgomery (2004), with text selected by Sandra Wagner and photographs by Anne MacKay and Wayne Barrett, and Eri Muraoka’s Anne’s Cradle: The Life and Works of Hanako Muraoka, Japanese Translator of “Anne of Green Gables” (2021), translated by Cathy Hirano. Vagrant Press, an imprint of Nimbus, also released Louise Michalos’s novel Marilla Before Anne in 2021.
Nimbus Publishing has also released reprint editions of older Montgomery-related texts, including Francis W.P. Bolger’s The Years Before “Anne” in 1991, Harry Bruce’s biography Maud: The Life of L.M. Montgomery (as Maud: The Early Years of L.M. Montgomery) in 2003, Deirdre Kessler’s abridgement A Child’s Anne (as Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers) in 2008, and Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery (as Imagining Anne: L.M. Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks) in 2019.