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Alcott Louisa M.. Jo's Boys. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Missing Title page and copy-right page. Can see the gutter of the front board.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa M.. Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First editio first state, brown boards, outer spine missing, hinges cracked, 18 pages of ads in rear, PO names on front pastedown and ffe.
Seller: Karl Theis, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa M.. JO'S BOYS. ROBERTS BROTHERS BOSTON 1886, BOSTON, 1886.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition some edgewear hardback inkname
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Louisa May Alcott. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1890 printing. In mustard cloth covers with stamped black lettering and striping and branch on front cover and emboosed lettering on upper stamp and rest stamped lettering and design on spine. Design endpapers in green. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping and heavy rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 1886 edition, 1886 printing. Small green hardcover, gilt lettering and embossed decorative tree branch on spine and front cover, red and black decorative band on spine. Green floral endpapers, 365 pages, blank page, followed by 18 pages of ads for publisher's books (with period illustrations of the characters), last book listed "A Flatiron for a Farthing". Cover rather worn but lettering bright (cover split halfway down upper rear edge of spine, cover worn through at top and bottom of spine and tips of corners, cover lightly worn otherwise). Binding stitching broken and four signatures are loose. Name in old pen dated Nov. 1886, otherwise unmarked. Quaint copy of original edition. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa M.. JO'S BOYS. ROBERTS BROTHERS BOSTON 1886, BOSTON, 1886.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good + condition, fairly bright hardback 12mo light edgewear
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Board and spine edges scuffed and worn. Binding shaken. Small stains to page edges. Page edges lightly toned. ; Decorated brown cloth boards and botanical endpapers. Text body is clean and unmarked. Includes publisher's advertisements at rear. ; 12.10 X 9.50 X 1.10 inches; 365 pages
Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa M.. JO'S BOYS, And How They Turned Out. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First State. Green cloth, red and gilt designs and lettering front & spine. 365 pp., Frontispiece with tissue, (1) Title page; (3) Dedication; (5) Contents,; (7-365) Text; plus 18 pp. Ads. Last ad A Flatiron For A Farthing. 1 1/16" textblock, Light wear to binding, sound, gilt bright, previous owner's signature on front end paper, 19 pages margins stained, no other marks or flaws - Very Good,
Seller: The Book Store at Depot Square, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
Alcott , Louisa M.. Jo's Boys. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Boards are almost separated but still tightly attached to cloth at spine. General wear to cloth. Title page is missing. All text is present and in good condition. Alladvertisements are presenr , including those for alcott's other books with the full page illustrations.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. 365 + [[9]ff. ads, for "Louisa M. Alcott's Famous Books"and others, the last being "A Flatiron for a Farthing." Text block exactly 1 1/8 inch thick. A good copy in green cloth boards decorated in gilt, black, and red. Wear and rubbing to extremities and edges, but internally fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 365 pages, [20] pages. Frontis. Illustrations in advertisements at the back. Cover is worn. Corners bumped, Shaken. Louisa May Alcott wrote the novel while living at the Thoreau-Alcott House on Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts. She bought the home for her sister Anna Alcott Pratt in 1877, though she moved in as well in the 1880s. Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children," now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo's sons Rob and Teddy, although the others make frequent appearances as well. The book takes place ten years after Little Men. Dolly and George are college students dealing with the temptations of snobbery, arrogance, self-indulgence and vanity. Tommy becomes a medical student to impress childhood sweetheart Nan, but after "accidentally" falling in love with and proposing to Dora, he joins his family business. Sections of Jo's Boys follow the travels of former students who have deep emotional ties to Plumfield and the Bhaers. Professor Bhaer's nephew Emil is now a sailor, and takes off on his first voyage as second mate and shows his true strength when he is shipwrecked and the captain badly injured. Dan seeks his fortune in the West and ends up in jail. He also falls in love with a person far beyond his reach, Jo's niece and Amy's daughter Bess. Nat begins a musical career in Europe that takes him away from Daisy, only to fall in with a frivolous crowd and unintentionally lead a young woman on, whom he then does not marry. Romance also plays a role in Jo's Boys, as both Franz and Emil find their own wives, and Tommy, Demi, Nat and Daisy are engaged by the end of the book. Nan remains single, dedicated to her medical career. Dan ends up committing the one sin he and Jo always feared he would, though it was in defence of both self and a younger boy, Blair. Dan kills a man who cheats Blair in gambling. Dan is sentenced to a year in prison with hard labor and only just gets through. Following his release, he saves mine workers from drowning and is brought back home a hero, when he confides in Mother Bhaer about his sin and the punishment that followed. She also discovers his fancy for Bess, though is not entirely surprised. Dan tells her of this fancy and that Bess seemed like the bright northern star which guided him. However, knowing that Amy wouldn't approve, Jo makes sure that the Laurences are away when Dan leaves again. Sadly, Dan dies protecting the Indians but lies in peace as if Aslauga's Knight had done his duty. First Edition, First Printing, first state.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First issue, Duodecimo, original brown cloth over boards, gilt stamped text, stamped design in gilt, black, red and gilt, decorative free papers. The final collection in the unofficial Little Women series from 19th century American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott, includes publisher ads and illustrations in rear. Very good, light edge wear, front hinge cracked but holding.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa May. JO'S BOYS. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo, 365, [18] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt and red decoration and black lettering to spine. Rubbing and bumping to corners of boards. Rubbing to edges and hinges. Light fraying and wear to head and tail of spine. Scuffing to boards and spine. Spine cocked. Binding loosening with gutter visible throughout. Previous owner's signature on second free endpaper. Agetoning throughout. Shelved in Case 6. BAL 211. 1377639. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Description: 365p. frontis. BAL 211 Very good conditon, top of spine chipped, faint stains on front cover
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa M.. JO'S BOYS. Robert's Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, 365pp, spine is decorated with gilt and red; raised lettering
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. First Edition, First State. Brown cloth decorated in black and gilt, 365 pp. + 1 blank + 18 pp. ads, last title mentioned in ads A Flatiron For a Farthing, 1 1/16" textblock, frontispiece, light green floral endpapers, matching dates on title and copyright page. Just Good, though bright (see scans); front hinge cracked, modest lean, small scale wear at spine ends and at corners, a bit of soiling, several spots of foxing at page fore-edge and at frontis tissue-guard, several leaves corner-torn, with minimal loss of text. See scans. Just Good, but lively and with all first-issue points. Alcott's latter-day update of the fortunes of former students at Jo's school for boys, Plumfield. Plenty soapy, and the characters have maintained their manitous though the [then] present day. Alcott's hopeful didacticism still abounds, as well. l50n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First State, BAL 211, original green cloth over boards, gilt stamped text, stamped design in gilt, black, red and gilt, decorative free papers. The final collection in the unofficial Little Women series from 19th century American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott, includes publisher ads and illustrations in rear, ink inscription on front end free paper. Very good, very light shelf wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Alcott, Louisa May. Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state with paper bulking 1 1/16" high. Binding of brown cloth with gold, red, and black decorations. Frontis plate illu stration. 365 pages plus eighteen pages of ads at the rear. A Very Goo d copy. Slight spine lean. The covers are clean with bright gold and r ed stamped decorations. Rubs to the book's corners and spine tips. The re is a 1/8" tear at the head of the spine. Former owner's name and th e date, Feb. 1887 are inked on the third blank leaf. The title page is split from the binding at its upper 3". Some tiny dust spots to the i nterior but is otherwise fine.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Small Octavo. Original brown cloth over boards, black ink floral decorations at front cover and spine, gilt lettering and decroations at front cover and spine, floral pastedowns and free end papers. Very good, slightly cocked, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, rubbing to cloth at edges and spine gutters, spine end lightly chipped, pages agetoned with minor foxing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 365. Brown cloth. First state with the sheets bulking 1-1/16". A very good tight clean copy. BAL 211.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo., green cloth with blindstamped cover design lettered in gilt; slightly soiled. First edition, first state, with sheets bulking 1-1/16 inches. (BAL 211). From the library of Maxwell Steinhardt, with the New York philanthropist, lawyer, and bibliophile's bookplate on the front pastedown, which was designed by the noted artist Rockwell Kent. A lovely copy of a literary classic with a distinguished provenance.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Louisa May Alcott. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out. Roberts Brothers, 1886.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out (Being a Sequel to Little Men) by Louisa May Alcott First Edition, First State (BAL. 211) Published 1886 by Roberts Brothers, Boston. Very Good Condition. Condition Notes: Some rubbing to cloth on front cover joint and few scuff marks to front and back cover. Binding is very good. Small black ink stain noted to inside top of pages 162-163 (about the size of a pin head). Moderate exposing of hinges around signature between pages 196-206 (please see photos for details). Some fading of gilt on spine and minor shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. Overall, this remains a beautiful copy for any Alcott collector's library.
Seller: Barrow Bookstore, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Louisa May Alcott. Jo's Boys. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$599.95 + shipping
Description: Hard cover. 8vo. 1st Edition. 1st State. 365pp. Clean text. Very good boards and binding., Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.