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Lot Description

[Children's & Illustrated] White, E.B. Charlotte's Web

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1952). First edition, first issue (with "I-B" on copyright page). 8vo. (viii), 184 pp. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Publisher's beige cloth, stamped in black and in blue, bottom front corner bumped, other corners very lightly worn; blue illustrated endpapers; in original price-clipped dust-jacket (with four blurbs for Stuart Little on rear panel), scattered wear and small losses along panel edges; panels toned, soiling on front and rear panels.

A bright and internally clean first edition of E.B. White's classic, one of the most popular children's books of the 20th century.

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