WHITE, E.B. (1899-1985). Charlotte's Web. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952.
8vo. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Publisher's beige cloth, stamped in black and in blue; unrestored dust jacket (spine darkened, tears and creasing along edges, minor losses to spine ends).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with “I-B” on the copyright page in FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with $2.50 price on front flap and four blurbs for Stuart Little on the rear panel. White's children’s literary classic won the John Newbery Medal in 1953, the Horn Book Fanfare in 1952, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970, and the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award in 1984.
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