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Alcott, Louisa May.
Description
- First and second issues of the first edition of the first part of "Little Women", together with the first edition of the second part:
- PAPER
Provenance
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Fine bright copies of these celebrated stories based on the author's own experiences. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germanstown, Pennsylvania and spent most of her life in Massachusetts. Educated by her father, the philosopher and writer, Amos Bronson Alcott, she began writing to help support her family. She too, like her heroine Jo, wrote stories for pulp magazines under a male pseudonym. The illustrations were by her sister May, upon whom the character of Amy was based.
The first volume is the first issue with no reference to "Part second"; the second volume is a later issue printing from 1869 with this reference on page 341; Part second is the second issue with the notice referring to "Little Women, Part First" on page [iv], and four entries in the advertisement leaf at page [364].