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Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
by ALCOTT, Louisa M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. First American edition, first issue, with front ad for "Pink and White Tyranny" listed as Nearly Ready. Signature mark "1" present. Published Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 12mo., 5" x 6 3/4", 376pp., illustrated frontis plate, plus three additional plates, 4pp ads. Green cloth with gilt titles and designs, brown endpapers. Spine cloth worn at the crown and heel with short, closed tears, some wear spots along the edges and at the tips, offset stain to lower corner of page block, binding gently tuned, bit shaken, corner chip off front and rear endpapers, July 1871 gift inscription on f.f.e.p. Pages clean, unfoxed, binding strong. Good. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 12mo.
Synopsis
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men". Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008987
- Title
- Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
- Author
- ALCOTT, Louisa M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
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About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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