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Lot 142

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. 1832-1888.
Flower Fables. Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. 1832-1888.

Flower Fables. Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855.
8vo. Frontispiece and 5 plates. Original brown cloth, spine decorated and titled in gilt, upper cover decorated in blind, with gilt device to center, lightly soiled with some wear to spine ends.
Provenance: Edwin Snow (note to early blank); Snow family (additional notes to endpapers).

FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, composed when she was just 16 years old. It would be another 8 years before her second book, and 13 years before Little Women appeared in 1868. BAL 142.

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