Cheney Ednah Editor (9 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1905 Edition. This is a VG hardcover copy of the 1905 Little Brown edition, brown decorated cloth binding, no DJ. Pasted in are 4 postcards of the Alcott home and grave sites and on the half title page is the 5 cent Louisa May Alcott US postage stamp. And original owner's bookplate, name and the original Boston bookseller stamps. All in all a lovely package. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, no DJ. Covers show light edge wear. Previous owner's name on end paper, pages are tanned and foxed. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover without dust jacket published by Roberts Brothers, 1892. Binding somewhat cocked/skewed. No text markings noted. Front hinge partly exposed. Gilt decorations on spine still bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. UNION south JC glass 2: This small hard cover is good; blemish to the bottom of the read cover, and an ink line along the rear top cover edge, wear to the spine tips, else good. Contents clean NO foxing, 163pp. tan w/gold lettering 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover, no dustjacket, 163 pages, floral-decorated end-papers, inscribed and signed by editor Ednah D. Cheney, same date on title page and copyright page, moderate wear at the spine-tips and mild rubbing at the corners but no other remarkable flaws to this attractive copy, "To the triple crown of Sculptor, Painter, and Architect, to which Michelangelo's claim is undisputed, must be added that of Poet, which has been accorded to him by the finest critics of his own time and of ours"; Signed by Editor.

Hardbound. Dark green cloth with gilt titling and stamped decoration; 404 pp.; 5 bw illustrations, including a frontispiece of Alcott. Copy belonged to Kermit Roosevelt (son of Theodore), whose name is written at first page. Good (Some wear to cloth at extremities; First few pages at front loose).

1890 Fair/--, No DJ, black 1/2" burn on bottom tip of pages 115 through 302, does not affect print, scuffing and rubbing, Notes under front picture, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, signed under back picture?, 404 pages.

Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated green boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, first edition, first printing, corners and spine ends bumped, lightly edgeworn, spine lightly sunned and spine edges worn, light rubbing to rear board, green floral endpapers, ink inscription to fep and to fly-title page, some foxing to title page and initial pages, black and white photograph of author to frontispiece with tissue guard, portrait of author on page 140 with tissue guard detached from binding to foot - there are five illustrations in total, two with tissue guards (frontispiece and page 40), two facsimile writings and the image entitled, 'Orchard House' do not have tissue guards, 404 pages clean, text clear to read, "with Goethe" at the bottom of page 44, advertisements to the rear of the book, binding cocked but pp secure. This book of autobiographical writings is taken from the journal that the author revised at different times during her later life and was printed after her death and was edited by Ednah Cheney who was connected to the Alcott family. Size: 12mo.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Twelvemo. Frontispiece, v, [6]404 pages + [8, illustrated publisher's adverts for Alcott books] + [2] plates. Publisher's gilt and color decorated cloth binding. Ownership inscription dated 1890 on endpaper with name erasure. Mild rubbing to boards, joints, extremities; very good. First edition, first printing, first state per BAL 221. Edited by Alcott's friend and admirer Ednah D. Cheney. Beyond tracing Alcott's literary development, the work offers many firsthand accounts of central figures in nineteenth-century New England literature and thought. Pages 32-55 includes a substantial discussion of the Fruitlands communal experiment. An important source for Alcott's private writings and a bright, clean copy.