Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (Orchard House Edition)

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1945 Little, Brown and Company. Boston, MA. c1927/Dated 1945 on the title page. Hardcover. Orchard House Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP dated 1946. Book Condition: Very Good; suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to board bottom edges, tail, head, and upper tips. No DJ. Dark blue shimmering "watered silk" covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Endpapers are photographs of the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where Louisa May Alcott lived with her sisters. Colored frontispiece illustration with two additional illustrations at page 120 and 276. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 292 pp 8vo. This book was published in 1875 by Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, who has been recently orphaned and resides with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family, until her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad to take over her care. Through his unorthodox theories about child-rearing, she becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven boy cousins and numerous aunts and uncles. She also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' young housemaid, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps Rose to understand and value her own good fortune. A clean very presentable copy.