Farmer Boy~Laura Ingalls Wilder~1961~Collectible~Very Good to Fine Condition~Rare~Hardback~Free Shipping

Farmer Boy~Laura Ingalls Wilder~1961~Collectible~Very Good to Fine Condition~Rare~Hardback~Free Shipping.

This is a great collectible children’s book in very good to fine condition. Minor shelf wear on the dust cover. Dust cover is bright with a nice sheen. Hardcover is also bright. Binding is tight. No markings or inscriptions. Not a former library book. Very rare and unique. Illustrations by Garth Williams. Would make a great gift! We have 2 other books in this series on our site, The Long Winter and On the Banks of Plum Creek, check them out.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), the third volume of her fictionalized history which takes place around 1874, the Ingalls family moves from Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, settling in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. They moved there from Wisconsin when Ingalls was about seven years old, after briefly living with the family of her uncle, Peter Ingalls, first in Wisconsin and then on rented land near Lake City, Minnesota. In Walnut Grove, the family first lived in a dugout sod house on a preemption claim; after wintering in it, they moved into a new house built on the same land. Two summers of ruined crops led them to move to Iowa. On the way, they stayed again with Charles Ingalls’ brother, Peter Ingalls, this time on his farm near South Troy, Minnesota. Her brother, Charles Frederick Ingalls (“Freddie”), was born there on November 1, 1875, dying nine months later in August 1876. In Burr Oak, Iowa, the family helped run a hotel. The youngest of the Ingalls children, Grace, was born there on May 23, 1877. - from Wikipedia


Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 – May 8, 1996) was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children’s books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children’s literature.

In Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and in the Little House series of books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Williams[‘s] drawings have become inseparable from how we think of those stories. In that respect ... Williams[‘s] work belongs in the same class as Sir John Tenniel’s drawings for Alice in Wonderland, or Ernest Shepard’s illustrations for Winnie the Pooh.

Mel Gussow in The New York Times wrote, “He believed that books ‘given, or read, to children can have a profound influence!’ For that reason, he said, he used his illustrations to try to ‘awaken something of importance ... humor, responsibility, respect for others, interest in the world at large!’” - From Wikipedia

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