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The former owners name is on both books. Each signed by Garth Williams on the half title in brown fountain pen. E-E on copyright page of CW and B-E on SL so neither is a first edition. The dust jacket for Charlotte's web is a first edition. $2.50 price intact on flap. 3/8" tear at bottom of the front panel. 3/8" tear and some creasing at the top of the spine. 1/8" chip at the bottom of the spine at the front fold. Fine color. A touch of tanning on the rear panel. The dust jacket for stewart little has price intact. 1" tear at the top front. 1/2" chip at the top and bottom of the spine. 1-1/2" x 3/4" triangular chip at the bottom of the front panel. 1/4" chip at the bottom front flap fold. Some tanning. Some evidence of moisture on the rear panel of the jacket. Not the book. Offered together as they were owned by the same person and obviously signed at the same time by Williams.

First Edition, First Printing. This copy is SIGNED by E.B. White on a publisher's page before the title page. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $2.50 printed price present on the front flap. The ORIGINAL dustjacket has NO chips or tears with minor repair The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED E.B. White First Editions.

First edition. First issue, with 'First edition, I-B' on verso title page as required. Original publisher's pictorial cloth in (supplied) dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to friend and fellow novelist, Elizabeth Taylor on the front end paper, "For Elizabeth Taylor / and I do like Irish whiskey / E B White". A very good copy, with some toning to the spine and a little wear to the spine ends and slight looseness to the initial pages. The dustwrapper is near fine, clean and bright with trivial wear and a thin chip to one corner. Colour dustwrapper by Garth Williams and numerous line drawings in the text also by Williams. Elizabeth Taylor, the critically regarded British novelist, described by Kingsley Amis as "One of the best English novelists born this century", whose writing career was forced into relative obscurity as a consequence of coinciding with the rise of her more famous namesake, the American actress. Her style was in the mould of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen, and has only recently been recognised as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. She wrote twelve novels and many short stories, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker, where E.B. White's wife, Katherine, was her first editor. Taylor rarely travelled to America so did not often meet White, but they became good friends via a long and frequent correspondence. Charlotte's Web was one of Taylor's favourite books and was a story she read aloud to her grandchildren. E.B.White was known to be a great fan of whiskey, often having a bottle to hand to offer guests and storing all his manuscripts in old whiskey boxes. Presentation copies of Charlotte's Web of significant literary association are genuinely rare.