8vo. Illustrated frontispiece, printer’s device on title-page, numerous illustrations. (Very light occasional toning.) Original publisher’s pictorial tan buckram stamped in green and pink, mint decorated endsheets (some light fading); original dust jacket (overall toning, minor chipping, short tear to front panel affecting “s” in “Williams”). 

 

FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers "10-5" and letters "I-U" on verso of title. In FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with flap priced $2.00. White’s first children’s book, which received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970.

 

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WHITE. The Trumpet of the Swan. Edward Frascino, illustrator. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in silver and gold, (some light fading to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (corners of front flap clipped, rust-stain from paperclip on lower panel, a few wrinkles to top edges, some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION.