Anne of Green Gables

The census claim is confirmed. L. C. Page & Company, Boston — published 13 June 1908, the author's first book — is the true first. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London issued the first British edition the same year (1908), printed from the American sheets; it follows Page and is collected as the first British edition rather than as the true first. Despite the Canadian author and Prince Edward Island setting there is no earlier Canadian edition; Page held the book. The Pitman imprint carried the sequel, Anne of Avonlea, in 1909, which is a common source of date confusion.