23rd Feb, 2022 10:00

The Collectors Sale

 
  Lot 2
 

Louisa M. Alcott., Little Women. 1st Edition.

British first edition pub. London Sampson Low Son & Marston 1869. 16mo. 341 pp. Lacking dust jacket, bleached spine, some yellowing to the edges, watermark to the back endboard, inscribed dedication to the endpaper in ink 'Florence E Eyton with grandmama's best love 1869', with collector's label Ex Libris and Royal Library Malvern label. Sellers notes in pencil '1st UK EDITION 1869'. Inside the endpaper with notes in pencil 'This 1st Eng. Ed. probably issued Christmas 1868. It is the American Sheets of 1st U.S.A. with a new title page and original adverts removed.

Sold for £300

Result plus buyers premium


 

British first edition pub. London Sampson Low Son & Marston 1869. 16mo. 341 pp. Lacking dust jacket, bleached spine, some yellowing to the edges, watermark to the back endboard, inscribed dedication to the endpaper in ink 'Florence E Eyton with grandmama's best love 1869', with collector's label Ex Libris and Royal Library Malvern label. Sellers notes in pencil '1st UK EDITION 1869'. Inside the endpaper with notes in pencil 'This 1st Eng. Ed. probably issued Christmas 1868. It is the American Sheets of 1st U.S.A. with a new title page and original adverts removed.

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