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Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1900. Early Edition . Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Publisher's sage green cloth with gilt lettering and red poppy motifs. Lettering to spine is quite rubbed. Minor edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. Binding a little tender, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Gift inscription in ink to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 54 pp.
Poppies and Wheat. by ALCOTT, Louisa May - 1900
by ALCOTT, Louisa May
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Poppies and Wheat.
by ALCOTT, Louisa May
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,, 1900. A beautiful copy of a work "written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion" Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine in green, title to front cover in gilt, poppy and wheat vignette blocked in red, yellow, and green. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 2 plates. An exceptional copy in sparkling cloth, with the rare dust jacket, slightly sunned and with a short closed tear to the front panel; very well-preserved, the front panel design retaining the colours. First separately published edition, with the dust jacket unusually well-preserved. This short story was first published in A Garland For Girls in 1887, a collection of seven stories written by Alcott in the period of illness before her death. "These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work" (introduction to A Garland For Girls). BAL 230.
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- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,
- Date Published 1900
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Poppies and Wheat
by Louisa May Alcott
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- Hardcover
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- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
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- No Jacket
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- Early Edition
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- Hardcover
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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Poppies and Wheat
by Alcott, Louisa May
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- Hardcover
- first
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Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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Little Brown, 1900 Bound in green cloth with poppies illustration on front cover, titles in gold, 54 pp plus 2 pp ads.Slight est bit of color variation to the fore edge of the front cover, traces of rubbing at the gutters. Illustrated frontis and two internal plates. Text mostly unread [I cracked it open just enough to check for the plates].
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Poppies and Wheat (1900, in dust jacket)
by Alcott, Louisa May
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
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- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. First separate edition (see BAL 230). 8vo, green pictorial decorated boards, in rare dust jacket replicating cover image. Book about fine, jacket good with one inch loss to spine head, some loss to corners and some shallow chips to rear panel.
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