Stuart Little

E.B. WHITE

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Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little
Stuart Little

AN EXCEPTIONAL RARITY SIGNED BY BOTH E.B. WHITE AND GARTH WILLIAMS: FIRST EDITION OF STUART LITTLE

WHITE, E.B. Stuart Little. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1945). Octavo, original pictorial olive cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket; housed in a custom slipcase.

A great children’s rarity: first edition, first printing, of White’s “outstandingly funny and sometimes touching” (Carpenter & Prichard, 568) first book for children, signed on the title page by White and illustrator Garth Williams.

"The story had been brewing with White for years as a disconnected series of bedtime tales for his nieces and nephews by the time it came to Harper. There, shepherded by the distinguished editor Ursula Nordstrom and felicitously illustrated [with 87 drawings] by Garth Williams, the book was eventually published-generally to high acclaim… The book sounds a resonant note as Stuart undertakes his quest for the beautiful bird, Margalo. And that quest, as White himself noted, 'symbolizes the continuing journey that everybody takes—in search of what is perfect and unattainable. This is perhaps too elusive an idea to put into a children's book, but I put it in anyway" (Silvey, 677). First edition, first printing, with code "I-U" on copyright page. Anderson, 6.

Interior fine. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket with toning to spine, a tiny abrasion to spine, and a tiny closed tear and a tiny, unobtrusive open tear to front panel. An about-fine signed copy.

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