Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE. The Little House. Color illustrations by Burton. Square 4to, original pictorial blue and white boards, fine; pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped, few skillful repairs to verso edges, one small paper restoration to bottom edge of back panel, occasional mild creasing to edges and folds; contemporary gift inscription on dedication leaf, insignificant repair to front free endpaper at top near gutter, illustrations bright and unmarked. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942

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first edition, one of the rarest and most sought after children's classics. An exceptional copy in the rare dust jacket of Burton's Caldecott Medal winner.