Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott by ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY - 1984

U.S.A: Quill/William Morrow and Company, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited and with an Introduction by Madeleine Stern. Black and white illustrations and facsimile letters to Louisa May Alcott from her publisher. A major literary discovery revealed that Louisa May Alcott wrote under a pseudonym. In 1862 she decided to write the first of several "blood-and-thunder" tales and did so under the name of A.M.Barnard. This book contains four of those stories. Black and white card cover is clean and unmarked with light wear to some edges, no creases, spine uncreased, square, soundly bound. The interior is very clean and free of any markings, no creasing. Includes Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power; Pauline's Passion and Punishment; The Mysterious Key and What It Opened; The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation. Pages xxxiii, 277. 9.254 x 6.25 inches. Quill/Wm Morrow and Co, New York, 1984.