Wilder, Laura Ingalls

On the Banks of Plum Creek

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1937. First edition. 8vo, 239pp. Illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. Beige cloth lettered and illustrated in pink, decorated pink and white endpapers. Very good with some soiling to boards and page block edge, and toning to spine. Young ownership signature and date in November of 1937 on front flyleaf. Marginal staining to preliminary pages and up to pg 3, else clean internally. First printing of the fourth book in the autobiographical Little House series from Wilder.  The title would win a Newbery Honor in 1938, the first in the series to do so, the 5th through 8th books following in kind. Item #5077

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