Louisa May Alcott: Dreamer and Worker.
An Early Twentieth Century Feminist Literary Biography,
Inscribed By The Author
Moses, Belle. Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker: A Story of Achievement. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926.
8vo.; frontispiece photograph of Louisa May Alcott; preliminaries lightly sunned; hinges loose, all pages present; green cloth stamped in blue; a used copy, covers worn, spine fraying and fading.
First edition of this early biography of Alcott by a Jewish scholar, dedicated to the biographer’s mother: To My Mother/Who Has Been To Her Children/What ‘Marmee’ Was To Her/‘Little Women’
TOGETHER WITH:
A presentation copy of a later edition, inscribed on the first blank: "Miss Helene Louise Spaulding/ Christmas, 1926/May you enjoy reading a life it gave me a pleasure to write./Sincerely yours,/Belle Moses."
With a later owner’s signature (1953) on the top of the first blank, not affecting the presentation inscription.
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