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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by [ALCOTT] Meigs, Cornelia
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Little Brown and Company, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original copyright 1933. Stated Ninth Printing 1968. Stated ""Alcott Centennial Edition."" Contains a ""New Introduction by the Author."" Hardcover in very good condition. Beige boards with brown lettering on front board and spine. Red endpapers. Text block clean & tight with no writings or markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition showing mild shelf wear and some edge wear and rubbing. Tiny chips at top and bottom of spine. Front of dust jacket contains a two inch gold sticker, the John Newberry Medal, for ""the Most Distinguished Contribution to American Literature for Children."" DJ not price clipped. Contains many illustrations throughout. Concludes with a Chronology of events in the life of Louisa May Alcott and a comprehensive Index.
Synopsis
Invincible Louisa is a book by Cornelia Meigs that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1934. It discussed the life of author Louisa May Alcott.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000100
- Title
- Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
- Author
- [ALCOTT] Meigs, Cornelia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Biography, Louisa May Alcott
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Classics & Essays; Biography;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- Spine
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- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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