Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy [First and Second Parts]. Together, 2 volumes. Part one with 4 illustrations and 6 pages of advertisements; part two with 4 illustrations and 8 pages of advertisements. Small 8vo, publisher's green cloth, front covers and spines gilt stamped, brown coated endpapers, spine tips frayed slightly, corners bumped and partly exposed, areas of light bubbling to covers, spines leaning slightly; contents generally quite clean. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868; 1869

Additional Details

first editions, first issues, in the original green cloth. With no announcement of "Little Women, Part Two" at last page of text in vol. 1. Uncommonly nice copies. BAL 158; 159; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 30; 36.