Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Kate Douglas Wiggin

Name/Title

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Kate Douglas Wiggin

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.322

Description

327 pages, plus publisher advertisements. Illustrations. Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Children, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Edition

Reprint

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1903

Printer

Riverside Press

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Printed

1907

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Poster Style

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with stamping in pink, white, light green, and grey. Flat, poster style illustrations within two rectangles depict a home seen through trees and a winding road through hillsides. Motif repeated to spine.

Notes

Flyleaf inscription: Gladys M. Lowe. Dec. 25, 1907.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

State/Province

Maine

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Exhibition

Lobby Case Aug 2020 - Nov 2020