Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1889.
Price: $400.00
Softcover. Quarto. [2], 28pp., with in-text illustrations and three etched plates: “Old Alcott House”; “On the Concord River”; portrait of Alcott. In the original silk ribbon tied thick paper wrapper hand-lettered in gold relief on the front cover. The wrapper is split along the spine with modest dust soiling and spotting, scattered tears at the top edges of the wrapper and left edge at the binding ties, scattering foxing and toning to the plates, the silk ribbon is crumpled, good. A moving tribute to Alcott, published shortly after her death in March 1888. (*BAL*, Vol. 1, p. 44).
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