Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder • Garth Williams [SECOND HARDCOVER EDITION] 1953 • Harper & Bros. • Little House #7

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder & illustrated by Garth Williams [LITTLE HOUSE #7]

SECOND EDITION • FIRST EDITION THUS [1953] HARPER & BROS.

Rare 1953 Second Hardcover Edition.  First illustrated edition with pictures by Garth Williams which have since become the staple illustrations in most editions.

Antique hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket shows wear and tear; discoloration and a few tape marks to underside as well as a few sealed tears.  

Original price in tact on front panel.  Now looks beautiful  in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent. Two tan spots to rear cloth. *gift inscription from christmas '61 on front flyleaf.

Pages look pristine and read like new.

Laura is almost fifteen. The long winter is over. With spring comes socials, dances, and "Literaries." There is also work to be done. Laura spends many hours each day sewing shirts to help send Mary to a college for the blind. But, in the evenings, Laura makes time for a new caller, Almazo Wilder.