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The trumpet of the swan [by] E.B. White. Pictures by Edward Frascino.

BIB_ID
312021
Accession number
MA 3851.1
Creator
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
Published
New York, Harper & Row [1970]
Credit line
Gift of E. B. White, 1971.
Description
210 p. illus. 22 cm
Notes
Inscribed: "For the Morgan Library - / Keeper of my swan. / Confidently, / E B White / North Brooklyn, Maine / 22 March 1971."
First edition.
Blue cloth, with pictorial dust jacket.
Part of a collection of manuscript drafts and source material related to E. B. White's The trumpet of the swan. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of E. B. White in 1971.
Summary
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.