The following has been reported missing in transit last month (June 2024), lost by UPS somewhere between Kentucky and Alabama. Please contact us if you have any information.

The copy can be identified by the inscription on the title page: “For June / best wishes / Louise Fitzhugh.”

Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy. New York: Harper & Row, (1964).

Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [4], 298, [2]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed “For June / best wishes / Louise Fitzhugh” on title page. Chipping to jacket, with loss to lower corner of front panel and flap, spine ends, and top corner of rear panel; two small tape repairs to verso.

The first edition of a landmark in American children’s literature, inscribed by Louise Fitzhugh. First issue dust jacket, priced at $3.95, with no mention of Fitzhugh’s 1965 sequel, The Long Secret. A very good copy, scarce inscribed.