ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. LITTLE WOMEN; OR, MEG, JO, BETH AND AMY Illustrated by May Alcott. 2 volumes. 8vo, original green cloth, spine ends

and one fore-corner skillfully repaired; hinges in Volume 1 renewed, title re-hinged and located before flyleaf and frontispiece in Volume 1, early owner's signature (dated October 1868) on flyleaf in first volume; imaginative cloth slipcase. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868-69 FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Volume 1 with no "Part One" on spine and without an announcement for "Little Women, Part Two," at foot of the last page of text. Volume 2 with no notice of "Little Women, Part First" on page iv. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, page 30; BAL 158, 159; Grolier/American 74.