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ALCOTT, Louisa May

Little Women

Little Women

London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1923]

Illustrated by GRAY, M. E.

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1923]. Illustrated by M. E. Gray with 12 tipped-in full-page colour plates, as called for. First edition thus. Sized 17.5 x 24cm. Pp. 322.

Condition

Publisher's original yellow cloth binding with decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Externally in good condition, however with some edgewear, tanning and some soiling in places, as well as some small (water?) stains to lower portion of front board. Corners and spine tips bumped. Binding is fragile with not-very-secure joints (netting exposed partially to front joint) and while no pages are loose, there are some breaks within. Internally, there is foxing, tanning and some thumb marks to pages, notably to prelims, but also sporadically throughout. Ex-library bookplate to front paste-down endpaper and inscription in pen to FFEP. Tipped-in plates in wonderful condition with all content clean and legible; perhaps one or two creases and a few ear marks. Complete example.

A lovely book of which we also have an example in our own personal library; and what a wonder to be read around Christmas time, with its classic first line: "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

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