Description
Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. (John C. Winston Company: Philadelphia, (©1926))
Octavo. xiii, 496 pages, twelve illus. by Clara M. Burd, four in color plus paste down. Hardcover bound in green cloth with color paste down in a gilt border. Paper is very this, decorated endpapers ‘The Home of “Little Women”‘
Condition: VG+, near Fine. Page 101/102 has a double fold with some schmutz on the edges of page 100 & 102 where the fold allowed dust in. Binding is neither tight nor loose. This is a super copy, though not perfect.
“Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.
“Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (entitled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name originated from the publisher and not from Alcott). It was also successful. The two volumes were issued in 1880 in a single work entitled Little Women.”- Wikipedia
