Alcott, Louisa May

Group of 7 titles

Comprising: The Rose Family. A Fairy Tale. Boston: James Redpath, 1864. First edition. 12mo. Engraved title, grey coated wrappers; scattered foxing, soiling, and short closed tears, circular sticker to engraved title, last quire trimmed a little shorter at lower edge, large tear to lower maౠrgin of terminal leaf (not costing any text); wrappers crease🌌d and chipped.

Also includes: Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag: My Boys, etc., Shawl Straps (two copies), Cupid and Chow Chow, etc., My Girls, etc. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872-1878; first editions. 8vos. Publishers cloth, coated endpapers. And: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: 💦Little, Brown, and Co., 1919; 8vo. Publishers cloth, sample copy, with publisher’s sticker on lower cover; Overall good to fair, occasional light foxing, circular stickers to preliminaries; bindings rubbed, wear to ends of spines, a few hinges cracked, a few volumes shaken.

A group of seven titles, mostly first editions. Lot includes The Rose Family, an early short children's story by Alcott. Rare: we cannot tr♓ace any copies in the auctio𝐆n record since 1976.

REFERNCE:

BAL 146, 168, 171, 174, 186

Sold as a group, not subject to return.