/Merrill, illustrator.

An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Roberts,1895/1870. Brown cloth, stamped, red medallion on spine, fine green floral design on endpapers, tissue frontis, 8vo; 378 pp. (contains ads);appealing 1920's bookplate of girl reading to her dolls,"Bookplates my children love best of all c. 1916" Juvenile hardback.

The heroine of this novel must learn to make her way as a working girl in a city of the 1870's; based on Louisa May Alcott's own experiences in Boston.

CONDITION: Good; bookplate, small period address stamp, corners, bottom edge, and spine top very worn & bumped, spine cloth split half inch. Item #13992

$12