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Good Wives
by Alcott, Louisa M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1958). Hardcover. 10mm tears and 5mm chips at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1958 reprint of 1953 edition. vii, [1], 296 pages + colour frontispiece + 3 colour plates. Patterned boards with crimson lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 136mm. Endpapers with same design as boards. Illustrated by S. Van Abbe. .
Synopsis
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868) was written in response to a request from Roberts Brothers. The publisher wanted a coming-of-age novel that could appeal to young female readers, so Alcott used her own family and childhood as inspiration. The semi-autobiographical account, which was written in less than three months, was an instant success. Alcott immediately wrote a second volume, Little Women, Part Two (or Second), which was published in 1869. In 1881, Part Two became chapters 24-47 of Little Women as both texts were revised, reillustrated and republished in a single volume by Roberts Brothers. British editions of both volumes of Little Women appeared soon after it was published in Boston. However, Alcott had not been able to secure copyright for her work in Great Britain and a number of publishers took advantage of the opportunity to reprint it without her consent. In several cases, Part Two was given a new title, such as Little Women Wedded (Sampson Low, 1872), Little Women Married (Sampson Low, 1873), Nice Wives (Weldon & Co., 1875), and finally, Good Wives (Nisbet, 1895). Good Wives: Little Women, Part II, was also published solo by Connecticut-based Longmeadow Press in 1995.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25090
- Title
- Good Wives
- Author
- Alcott, Louisa M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1958)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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