"Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott; illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1922, copyright by Little, Brown & Company, 1915. First Edition for the illustrations.

Original hard boards with past down illustration (some wear - see photo), original publisher's brown cloth; 6.1/4" x 9.1/8"; 397 pages, all 8 color plates on glossy paper are present, a few small stains mostly on blank edges, very good condition.

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as 'Century, Collier's', 'Leslie's Weekly', 'Harper's', 'McClure's', 'Scribners', and the 'Ladies' Home Journal'. She had an ongoing relationship with 'Good Housekeeping', which included a long-running 'Mother Goose' series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and "An Old-Fashioned Girl", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses".

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women" (1868) and its sequels "Little Men" (1871) and "Jo's Boys" (1886).

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