Description
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women or Meg Jo, Beth and Amy. (Chicago, Philadelphia and Toronto: John C. Winston, ©1926) illustrated by Clara M. Burd. Includes the rare dust jacket.
Octavo (8vo). 496 pages. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with color lithograph laid on front cover. Spine stamped in gilt. Decorative endpapers, “The Alcott House”. Original illustrated dust jacket. Twelve illustrations, in color and in black and white.
Condition: Very good in fair dust jacket. Mostly clean. Name written on first free endpaper. Though the dust jacket has tears and paper loss, it is uncommon to find a copy that even has a dust jacket. Loose between frontispiece and title page. Dust jacket placed in mylar Brodart for protection.
“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
