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Author: Alcott, Louisa M.
Title: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Place: Boston
Publisher: Roberts Brothers
Date: 1871
Item # : 117878
Sale Number   246
Lot Number   8
Sale Name    
Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana
Sale Date   08/15/2002
Price realized   $ 86
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Description:
[i-ii blank], [4] ad pp., [6], 376 pp. Illustrated with 3 wood engraved plates inserted (as issued) and frontispiece with tissue-guard. 6½x4¼, terra-cotta cloth, stamped in gilt, brown-coated endpapers. First American Edition.
First printing with signature mark 1 present; although BAL states no sequence has been established, it does note that the 1892 reprint did not have the mark. Also, first issue with "Nearly Ready" present on fourth page of ads for the title "Pink and White Tyranny." BAL 167.
Condition:
Some wear to spine ends & corners, spine leaning, rear joint beginning to split; hinges worn, previous owner's pencil signature to front free endpaper, old glue & paper remnants to rear endpapers, else good to about very good.
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