Kilmeny of the Orchard
by Montgomery, L. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Boston: L. C. Page & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. Lacking front free endpaper. Hinges broken. The final plate is detached with creasing, and chips and tears to margins. ; Fifth printing, October 1910. [x], 256 pages + 5, [1 (blank)] pages advertisements + 4 colour plates (including frontispiece).Light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board, oval colour paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 191 x 129mm. .
Synopsis
Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is the story of a young man named Eric Marshall who goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets a mute girl that has perfect hearing named Kilmeny. He sees her when he is walking in the woods and hears her playing the violin. He visits her for a long time until he falls in love with her.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20625
- Title
- Kilmeny of the Orchard
- Author
- Montgomery, L. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1910
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Plate
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