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WHITE, Elwyn Brooks (“E.B. White”) (1899-1985). Charlotte’s Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
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WHITE, Elwyn Brooks (“E.B. White”) (1899-1985). Charlotte’s Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 


8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth stamped in blue and black, decorated blue endsheets (some minor fading to board edges); in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some toning, a few tiny chips or abrasions).  

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.