First-edition Anne of Green Gables expected to set auction record
- December 01, 2009 12:24
"One of the most sought-after children's books" for North American bibliophiles — a first edition copy of Anne of Green Gables — is to be sold at auction in New York next week. The widely-loved classic novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, first printed in April 1908, is expected to fetch up to a record $25,000 at Sotheby's Dec. 11. This copy once belonged to the late George Cosmatos, director of the 1985 film "Rambo: First Blood II"...