A Round Dozen: Stories by Louisa May Alcott [FIRST EDITION] 1967 • The Viking Press

A Round Dozen - Stories by Louisa May Alcott selected and with a foreward by Anne Thaxter Eaton with illustrations by Tasha Tudor

FIRST EDITION [1967] THE VIKING PRESS

4th printing / 1967.  

Hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition. 

Dust jacket has a few scuffs and one mid-sized tear to rear that has been professionally sealed.  Otherwise excellent.  Front panel clipped with original price of $4.00 still in tact.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint; pristine pink cloth boards.  Bright, clean white pages.  A few tiny marks to text block.  Reads like new. 

For many years, Louisa May Alcott's short stories, collected in volumes with delightful titles such as Spinning Wheel Stories, Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, and Lulu's Library--  were as much loved by readers as Little Women and Under the Lilacs.

But fashions change, and, one by one, long ago, these collections went out of print.
Anne Thaxter Eaton, believing that many good stories worth reading and re- membering were lost along with the "period pieces" of only temporary interest, has assembled an entrancing sampling of those she herself likes best.

Old-fashioned these stories may be. But in the variety of their plots and the liveliness of their style they have the timeless appeal of all true storytelling.
Tasha Tudor's drawings, exquisite in themselves, have a charming authenticity of detail that will doubly endear to "modern" children the stories an earlier era cherished.