Flower Fables
- Boston: George W. Briggs & Co, 1855
Boston: George W. Briggs & Co, 1855. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [ii], 182 pp., complete with 6 wood engraved plates including frontispiece. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, yellow endpapers. Very Good with sunned and moderately rubbed cloth and slightly bumped corners; overopened with stitches showing. Offsetting and light soiling to front endpapers, staining and occasional foxing and pencil marks to contents throughout, and 1-1/4 inch chip to lower margin corner of one plate. A much nicer copy than normally encountered of a book difficult to obtain in collectable condition.
Alcott's first book, a compilation of fairy stories written by the sixteen-year-old author for Ellen Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter. The first edition was printed in a run of just 1,600 copies, most of which were loved to death by their owners, making the book even scarcer. BAL142.
Details
Title
Flower Fables
Author
Alcott, Louisa May
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
George W. Briggs & Co: Boston
Date
1855
Edition
First Edition