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Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men."
by ALCOTT, Louisa M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. A 1927 printing of Louisa May Alcott's classic 1886 novel, the final entry in her "Little Women" series. This is the story of the grown sons of Jo Behre: Rob and Teddy, and other grown former students at Plumfield Estate School. This work originally published by Roberts Brothers in 1886. Includes a frontis plate bearing a bas relief image of the author by Walton Ricketson and Alcott's facsimile signature. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling and decorations in brown and gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, brown staining to rear endpapers & textblock top edge and light tanning to leaves, else a well-preserved, sound copy. Note: A weakened front hinge and partially detached back strip have been repaired on this item.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; [12], 358 pages .
Synopsis
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Little Women #3) by Louisa May Alcott is the final book in the trilogy that began with Little Women and Little Men . Jo and her husband run a school in Plumfield, and their boys are now grown. Jo watches her sons; Dan, Emil, and Nat, as they experience floods, shipwrecks, and other dramatic adventures. "It is that very struggle with obstacles that does us good... You must paddle your own canoe now, and learn to avoid the rapids and steer straight to the port you want to reach."
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88043
- Title
- Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men."
- Author
- ALCOTT, Louisa M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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