Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals.

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First edition, first printing, first state per BAL 221. Edited by Alcott’s friend and admirer Ednah D. Cheney. Beyond tracing Alcott’s literary development, the work offers many firsthand accounts of central figures in nineteenth-century New England literature and thought. Pages 32-55 includes a substantial discussion of the Fruitlands communal experiment. An important source for Alcott’s private writings and a bright, clean copy.

Description: Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Twelvemo. Frontispiece, v, [6]–404 pages + [8, illustrated publisher’s adverts for Alcott books] + [2] plates. Publisher’s gilt and color decorated cloth binding. Ownership inscription dated 1890 on endpaper with name erasure. Mild rubbing to boards, joints, extremities; very good.

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Price: $125.00

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