LITTLE MEN; Life at Plainfield with Jo's Boys / by Louisa May Alcott / Author of Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, etc. / With Illustrations by Frances Brundage by Alcott, Louisa May - 1928

Akron, Ohio New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1928. First Saalfield Reprint. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Frances Brundage. 12mo, red cloth with black lettering, illustrated with black & white line cuts, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket painting of the "Little Men," 405 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION of a RARE early illustrated edition of this children's classic with the wonderful illustrated RARE dust jacket. Saalfield typically published important titles in attractive reprints. Very slight uniform age toning to pages from this early period and from this publisher as is characteristic. 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 her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of 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. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name "A. M. Barnard," under which she wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.