STUART LITTLE E B White 1945 First Edition 1st Printing Children's Classic HCDJ

by E.B. White, E. B. White

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Stuart Little by E.B. White Published by Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1945. First Edition, First Printing in Later Printing Dust Jacket. Good hardcover in good later printing price-clipped dust jacket. Original cloth binding. Tight binding, solid spine, some soiling and edge wear to boards, some age spots to internal pages but no writing, tears to pages 95/96 & 103/104. Dust jacket is from a later printing, front flap is price-clipped (top & bottom), edge wear and tears have been repaired with archival tape. Illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Garth Williams, 8vo, 131 pages. E.B. White—drawing from a vivid dream he'd had years earlier of a small boy who looked remarkably like a mouse, crafted a tale that would challenge every convention of children's literature while establishing itself as an enduring classic. The story follows Stuart Little, a mouse-sized boy born to perfectly ordinary human parents in New York City, as he navigates the towering world of grown-ups with characteristic pluck and determination. White's prose, honed through decades of writing for sophisticated adult audiences, brings an unprecedented literary sophistication to children's fiction, treating young readers with the same respect and intelligence he afforded his New Yorker subscribers. Garth Williams's delicate pen-and-ink illustrations capture both the whimsy and underlying melancholy of Stuart's adventures, from hi

• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Year: 1945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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