Rebecca of SunnyBrook Farm - good,

This is a copy of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin, a classic of American children's literature first published in 1903. The story follows young Rebecca Rowena Randall as she goes to live with her two austere aunts in a fictional Maine village, capturing the warmth and spirit of rural New England life.

Edition & Printing Identification

While the copyright page states "Copyright, 1903" and "Published October 1903," this specific volume is a later reprint, not a true first edition. * The Publisher: The true first edition was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in October 1903. Your copy was issued by Grosset & Dunlap.

• The Grosset & Dunlap Practice: Grosset & Dunlap was a prominent "reprint house." They specialized in purchasing the printing plates or reprint rights of popular books from the original publishers and issuing lower-cost editions for the mass market. It was standard practice for them to leave the original publisher's copyright date untouched on the copyright page, which frequently leads people to believe they have a first printing.

• The Cover: The decorated cloth front cover   beautifully duplicates the original art nouveau style used on the true Houghton Mifflin first edition (designed by absolute legend of book design, Sidney L. Smith).

Based on the binding style and typography, this reprint likely dates from somewhere between 1904 and the 1910s.