Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women. 1868, first edition, frontispiece and three plates, 6pp. publisher's advertisements at end (paged 3, 2, 11, 12, 8 and 11), original purple cloth lettered in gilt, loss to corner of fourth leaf of fourteenth gathering, recased with some restoration to spine, bookplate; Little Women... part second. 1869, first edition, fourth state, frontispiece and three plates, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt, ownership signature, slightly skewed and shaken, extremities rubbed; both 8vo, brown-coated endpapers, some light spotting and browning, occasional light soiling, occasional minor tears

BAL 158; 159

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