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.
