JACK AND JILL; A Village Story / By Louisa M. Alcott / With Illustrations
Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1900. Reprint of 1880 edition. Decorative cloth. 12mo (7" x 4 3/4" x 1 1/4") brown cloth with gilt spine & leafy sprigs on spine & front cover, illustrated by xxx with B&W lithographic frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 3 additional full-page plates, 325 pages + [7] Ads for Alcott & related books. Fine / None. Item #8741
Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868), and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
She worked to help support the family from an early age and began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life.
FINE and remarkably tight copy with very clean pages (apart from preliminary presentation & ownership entries on the front endpapers) plus immaculate illustrations. No foxing. Likely from a set. Minute wear to corners, else almost as good as new.
Price: $35.00