(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE. The Little House. Illustrated by the author. Square 4to, original pictorial teal cloth stamped in cream, light wear to extremities; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, several chips including to upper spine panel with loss of letters, closed tears and creasing, short closed tears to lower margins of final two leaves. first edition, first printing in scarce unrestored dust jacket, with the 1942 date printed on the title page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942