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ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY.
Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy [First
and Second Parts].
Together, 2 volumes. Part one with 4 illustrations and 6 pages of
advertisements; part two with 4 illustrations and 8 pages of advertisements. Small 8vo, pub-
lisher’s green cloth, front covers and spines gilt stamped, brown coated endpapers, spine tips
frayed slightly, corners bumped and partly exposed, areas of light bubbling to covers, spines
leaning slightly; contents generally quite clean.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868; 1869
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITIONS
,
FIRST ISSUES
,
in the original green cloth.With no announcement of “LittleWomen,
Part Two” at last page of text in vol. 1. Uncommonly nice copies. BAL 158; 159; Peter Parley to
Penrod pp. 30; 36.
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ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN.
Danish Fairy Legends and Tales.
Half-
title. Small 8vo, original boards rebacked in modern calf gilt, rubbing to extremities; text
clean.
London:William Pickering, 1846
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
scarce in original boards.With advertisements at front (1 page) and back (2 pages).
One of the earliest translations of Andersen’s Fairy Tales into English, published the same year as the
first English translation, containing several tales appearing in English for the first time.
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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
LOTS 37-85
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