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Price: $5.00
Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing Co.: 1940
Seller ID: 028006
Condition: Good
edge wear to boards; previous owner's name on ffep; The third work in Louisa May Alcott's quartet of Little Women books, Little Men picks up the narrative after the end of Good Wives and follows Jo's progress in life. After her marriage to Professor Friedrich Bhaer, Jo uses the money from her inheritance from Aunt March to set up a school at Plumfield. Their latest arrival is Nat Blake, a timid orphan boy whose life so far has been spent playing the violin to make money on the streets. Nat joins the ten other children at the school - a gang made up of neglected children, orphans and also Meg's... View more info
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Puffin: 1984-04-03
Seller ID: 038961
ISBN: 0140350187
Condition: Good
edge wear, some light soiling to covers; Just two years after the extraordinarily successful publication of LITTLE WOMEN and GOOD WIVES, Louisa Alcott's brother-in-law died, leaving two sons. She immediately decided to write a sequel to provide for her sister and nephews, and LITTLE MEN, published in 1871, became a tribute to her father's theories of education. The story is set in Plumfield, a school run by Jo and her German husband, Professor Bhaer, and they follow the precepts of Grandpa March in cultivating the little mind - 'not tasking it with long hard lessons, parrot-learned, but helpin... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company: circa 1930s
Seller ID: kb009109
Condition: Fair
250 pages; hinges cracked, gift inscription on fep (dated 1943); yellowing to pages; corners bumped, spine edges threadbare, board edges almost so; This sequel to "Eight Cousins" continues the story of orphan Rose Campbell and her friendship with her seven male cousins. View more info
By: Alcott, Louisa May; Straight, Susan [Afterword]
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Signet Classics: 2004-04-06
Seller ID: 039423
ISBN: 0451529308
Condition: Good
slight moisture wrinkling to corner of last 50 pages; In picturesque 19th-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war. View more info
