Little Women.
FIRST EDITION
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. With illustrations. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870.
2 vols., 8vo.; discreet ownership stamps (“Mrs. Geo. W. Prentiss”) to first blanks; green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; lightly worn.
First edition, later issue; original published in 1868; this copy without “Part First” on the spine of volume one, but with the statement on page 341: “End of Part First. Part Second, completing Little Women, is published in a volume to match this”; the price of Little Women, in two volumes, is given on page 17 of the terminal ads at $3.00.
Alcott gained fame in the late 1860s with the publication of Little Women, a story about the lives of four Massachusetts’ sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – based on Alcott’s own childhood family. Alcott continued the story with Little Men (1871) and concluded with Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out (1886).
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