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Little Women
by Alcott, Louisa M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Usa: Little, Brown & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover is in fair/acceptable condition with binding is cracked at the half title page. No dust jacket but the book probably never had one. Edges of the spine are frayed. Corners of covers are bumped. A child had colored and drawn on the end pages and on the fly pages. Small gift inscription is written on the front fly page and is dated 1928. Pastedown on the front cover is rubbed and has some pen marks. Front fly page has one tear that was taped by a previous owner. One of the illustration plates (page 7) is missing but the rest of them are still attached to the text block. A few light stains to the page margins. Black cloth on the spine is faded to brown and the text is barely legible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 397 pages .
Synopsis
Little Women (or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March—and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spellbinder Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 693
- Title
- Little Women
- Author
- Alcott, Louisa M
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Antiquarian, Literature, Fiction, Classic Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Literature;
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About the Seller
Spellbinder Books
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Bishop, California
About Spellbinder Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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