Book Details + Condition: Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA). True First Edition, 1875. Only 5000 copies in the true first printing, in blue cloth. Hardcover. 290 pages with 6 pp of advertisements to rear. Chocolate endpapers. Novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, of Little Women fame, that follows a sickly young girl sent to live with her aunts, and then sent to live with her eccentric uncle, whose ideas help to heal her both physically and mentally. This edition includes a frontispiece titled "Rose and her Aunts," and contains several illustrations throughout. In worn condition, but binding remains firm, with a bit of pulling to inside threading; heavily rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with areas of discoloration; gilt to spine is faded; slight lean to book; sporadic age discoloration / light foxing; interior is clean and free of markings.
