![]() ![]() Eight pages of publisher's advertisements to rear of each. HAVE SMALL END CHIPS, SOME SCUFF SPINE EDGES, Four full page illustrations present, including Frontispiece. 12mo, BOTH VOLS SLIGHT LEAN, PART 1ST HAS 341 PGS + ADS THRU Arthur Helps s Writings, PART 2ND HAS 359 PGS + ADS THRU THE PEGEON PIE, BOTH VOLS. (inner) hinges just starting Slightly light use to extremities of cloth still, tight and sound. $3, HAS DEFINITE LEAN FOXING STAINS, Pon Title pg & 1869 ON COPYRIGHT & HAS SMALL SPINE TEAR BTM OUTER SPINE CVR BACK & LITE WRINKLING TO FRONT CVR & SMALL UPPER BLANK MARGIN CHIP PG 129 ,PUBLISHERS brownred Cloth Lite edgewear Scuff, VG CONDITION, Stamped in gold with litely scuffed edges & wear & Gold Gilt Oval on front with Title & Author. Illustrated From Engravings,SAYS WITH Illustrations on Title pg, SLIGHT LEAN, Inner Hinges in back Vol.1 Slightly cracked HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET ISSUED, 2 VOLUMES COMPLETE VG, NOJACKET, 1871 on Title Pg BOTH VOLS, 1ST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE, PART FIRST & PART SECOND, VG-/GOOD +, NO JACKET,AS-IS, Pon Title pg & 1868 ON COPYRIGHT & Has Small Spine edge Tear TOP BACK & tiny Chips ends of Spine & 10 PGS ADS AT BACK & MENTIONS LITTLE WOMEN 2 VOLS. Good Wives' is the UK-title of part 2, Some Illustrated ADS IN Back, VERY SLIGHT LEAN. Front end-paper + iv + 283pp + ii + 313pp + 34pp publisher advertisements + end-papers - complete. Binding reasonably firm, general edge-wear, lean to text-block, all page edges gilt, rear-outer-hinge holding but fraying, minor innocuous repairs to inner-hinges. FEW BLANKMARGIN SMALL EDGE CHIPS, Original publishers bevelled-edge brown cloth stamped in decorative black frames & gilt titles to front board & spine. THICK BROWN RED Bevelled DECORATED CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT WITH LITE EDGEWEAR, GOLD GILT PGS OUTE4R EDGES, SOME Interior MILD Foxing, Publ 'Tyler' ceased to be a partner of 'Ward, Lock' in 1873. Fox, HARDBACK NODustjacket ISSUED, UNDATED BUT circa 1872, 1ST UK BRITISH EDITION ?, OF PART 1ST ENDS ON PG 283 & 2ND, WHICH WAS CALLED GOOD WIVES IN UK, Ends on pg 313 + Many ADS SOME Illustrated, IN HARDBACK in Single Volume, VG-, AS-IS,, APPROX6 1/2 X 4 1/4 IN. B/W DECORATIONS ON SOME PGS, Ormiston Free Church School' prize Inscription to front end-paper dated 1875, awarded to Mary Kerr from Mrs. First Edition, Early Printing First Edition, Third State. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name originated from the publisher and not from Alcott). ![]() Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Following the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy-the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher. BAL 158/159 Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) which was originally published in two volumes in 18. ![]() Happy Thoughts." on page Also sold with 'Old-Fashioned Girl' and 'Little Men', Boston: Robert Brothers, 1870/1871, both in Fair condition, with hand-colored plates and marked volumes 3/4 of the personal library. 341 and, four 1869 printings have been noted without the Part One statement on the spine" Part Two: iv, 359,, advertisements pages 15, 12, 11, 3, 2, 18, 19, 20, First Edition, Third State, with page iv having note "Little Women, Part First, is published in a volume uniform with this," 5 entries on page, and "Handy Volume Series / I. BAL states "there were at least three printings dated 1869 before the notice was added to p. Early Printing, with notice for "Little Women, Part Two" on page 341 and no 'Part One' statement to spine. All eight plates have been colored in an early hand tear to lower fore corner of page 211 of volume 1, with small loss to text Part One: vi, 7-341,, advertisements pages 3, 2, 11, 12, 15-20. Octavo, 2 volumes G bound in publisher's uniform terracotta cloth, brown-coated endpapers moderate wear and rubbing, including peeling to heads and tails of spines, large peeling along lower rear hinge of volume 2, some bumping to corners, some gatherings loosening matching bookplates to front pastedowns, dated 1894, marking these as volumes 1 and 2 of a personal library name in ink to sfep interior free of most age-marks each volume with frontispiece with tissue-guard and 3 plates, as issued.
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