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The Watchman and Other Poems
$600.00
L. M. Montgomery
Toronto; McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [1916]. SCARCE. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to gilt. Minor fading to top edges of boards and to spine. Spots of discoloration to bottom edge of front board, spine, and top edge of rear board. Light soiling to rear board. Foxing to end papers, first and last few pages, and edges of text block. Text remains clean and bright. Un-trimmed edges with many pages unopened. Binding tight. The only book of poetry by Lucy Maud Montgomery. 159 pages.
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