Flower Fables
Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855.
First edition, first printing. [ii], 182 pp., complete with 6 wood engraved plates including frontispiece. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, yellow endpapers. Very Good with sunned and moderately rubbed cloth and slightly bumped corners; overopened with stitches showing. Offsetting and light soiling to front endpapers, staining and occasional foxing and pencil marks to contents throughout, and 1-1/4 inch chip to lower margin corner of one plate. A much nicer copy than normally encountered of a book difficult to obtain in collectable condition.
Alcott's first book, a compilation of fairy stories written by the sixteen-year-old author for Ellen Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter. The first edition was printed in a run of just 1,600 copies, most of which were loved to death by their owners, making the book even scarcer. BAL142.
Price: $3,800