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JACK AND JILL: A VILLAGE STORY
by ALCOTT, LOUISA M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Front cover vignette in black. Green floral endpapers. Frontispiece illustration of "Harmony Village" with tiissue-guard. Spine extremities are frayed. Internally very clean throughout. Book-plate on front pastedown. An inscription is a very neat old hand on a front preliminary page, dated "Christmas1881". 325pp. + six pages of adverts. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, poet, best known for her "Little Women" and "Little Men" with their sequels. This children's story takes place in a small town in New England after the Civil War. See BAL 195. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015459
- Title
- JACK AND JILL: A VILLAGE STORY
- Author
- ALCOTT, LOUISA M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alcott, American Literature, Children's Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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