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Lot 350
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021
4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
White, Elwyn Brooks (“E.B. White”) (1899-1985). Charlotte’s Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth stamped in blue and black, decorated blue endsheets (some light rubbing); original publisher’s dust jacket (some light chipping, overall browning).
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.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch