Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag. My Boys, Etc.

ALCOTT, Louisa May.

Item Number: 111062

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872.

First edition of the first installment in Alcott’s six volume collection of short stories for children. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. In excellent condition, inscription.

American novelist, short story writer and poet Louisa May Alcott was best known for her 1868 novel Little Women, and its sequels Little Women, Part the Second, Little Men, and Jo's Boys. Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published between 1872 and 1882, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag included 66 short stories for children published in six volumes.