The Alcotts: Biography of a Family
by Bedell, Madelon
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good+: clean, square, tight, text unmarked/very good: small closed tear top front cover, NOT clipped ($15.95)
- ISBN 10
- 0517540312
- ISBN 13
- 9780517540312
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. first edition. hardcover. very good+: clean, square, tight, text unmarked/very good: small closed tear top front cover, NOT clipped ($15.95). 8vo 400pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "This is the story of the lives of the nineteenth-century philosopher and educator Amos Bronson Alcott; his wife, Abby May; and their four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May. The Alcotts were the real-life prototypes for the Marches in Little Women, and with this biography, the first of a two-volume work, Madelon Bedell provides an intimate, compelling reexamination of the truth behind the Alcott/March family legend." #01308.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1240
- Title
- The Alcotts
- Author
- Bedell, Madelon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good+: clean, square, tight, text unmarked
- Jacket Condition
- very good: small closed tear top front cover, NOT clipped ($15.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517540312
- ISBN 13
- 9780517540312
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- biography, family biography, alcotts, Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, New England, nonfiction, first edition
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