Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (Orchard House Edition)
by Louisa M. Alcott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
CA$48.44CA$33.91
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1945 Little, Brown and Company. Boston, MA. c1927/Dated 1945 on the title page. Hardcover. Orchard House Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP dated 1946. Book Condition: Very Good; suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to board bottom edges, tail, head, and upper tips. No DJ. Dark blue shimmering "watered silk" covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Endpapers are photographs of the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where Louisa May Alcott lived with her sisters. Colored frontispiece illustration with two additional illustrations at page 120 and 276. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 292 pp 8vo. This book was published in 1875 by Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, who has been recently orphaned and resides with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family, until her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad to take over her care. Through his unorthodox theories about child-rearing, she becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven boy cousins and numerous aunts and uncles. She also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' young housemaid, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps Rose to understand and value her own good fortune. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016806
- Title
- Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (Orchard House Edition)
- Author
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Illustrator
- Hattie Longstreet Price
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins, foster home, orphan, family fiction, child rearing, adolescent fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
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