Alcott’s Little Women was originally scheduled for publication in the Illustrated Modern Library in fall 1947. Albert de Mee Jousset received $2,000 for the artwork, which included both line drawings and color illustrations. Typesetting was ordered in May, but escalating production costs forced the suspension of the Illustrated series. Paper orders for Little Women were canceled in June.

Little Women was finally published in 1950 in the regular Modern Library series without the color illustrations, although it did have the line drawings intended for the Illustrated edition. The color illustration on the dust jacket probably came from Jousset’s original material.

The first printing was 6,000 copies with at least one other printing.

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

Dates in print:     1950 - 1955

Toledano number:    258.2

Genre:     novel (children's)

Original language:      English