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Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
by ALCOTT, Louisa May
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0688030467
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030469
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1976. Hardcover. Edited by Madeleine Stern. Small 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 315pp, (4pp). Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of this quartet of pseudonymously published Alcott potboilers: "V.V.: or, Plots and Counterplots," "A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model," "The Skeleton in the Closet," "A Whisper in the Dark" and "Perilous Play." A fine decorative-edged archival bookplate on front flyleaf is signed boldly by Stern in black ballpoint and inscribed "For my colleague...." This is a sequel to Stern's 1975 "Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott," in which she first lays out in riveting fashion how she discovered these thrillers published under the name "A.M. Bernard" in long-forgotten weeklies.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48749
- Title
- Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
- Author
- ALCOTT, Louisa May
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0688030467
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030469
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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