Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874-1942) — Magic for Marigold

Toronto, Ontario, Canada McClelland and Stewart Publishers | Printed by T.H. Best Printing Co., Ltd. pp. vii, [1], 328. Small 8vo., measuring 190 x 125 mm. Publisher's terracotta cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine. Light rubbing, and edgewear to the cloth extremities, very small split at the head of spine. Neat period ink name to the ffep otherwise, text-block remains without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding. Overall, good+ to very good. Our offering is a later reprint - likley from the 1930's - the first printing having been published by McClelland & Stewart and printed by Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Ltd. While the title page indicates that it is accompanied with a frontispiece, this later re-print lacks this colour plate. See Spadoni and Donnelly Citation #942: "A Bibliography of McClelland and Stewart Imprints, 1909-1985" (#942, p. 268), wherein, they state "also examined were two copies, one printed by Hunter-Rose Co., Ltd and the other by T.H. Best Printing Co., Ltd., both of which appear to be reprints, although they still have only the 1929 copyright date on the verso of the title-leaf."