Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Pictorial boards that match dust jacket with red and black writing on spine; top and bottom of book spine rumpled. Bump on lower corner of front board; bottom of book spine also slightly worn. Wear on top edges of front dust jacket; top of dust jacket spine has very small piece missing. Creases and wear on bottom of dust jacket spine wear on bottom corner of front dust jacket where it bends into dust jacket flap. Blue endpapers with spider web illustration by Garth Williams; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.
Book is probable later printing (possibly 1960s) published by Harper & Row as indicated by following:
- Cover price of $3.95 on front dust jacket flap;
- No ISBN listed in book;
- Copyright page has five digit ZIP code in publisher's address;
- Two other titles written by E. B. White on back dust jacket
Copyright page does have 1952 publication date; this copy is signed and inscribed by illustrator Garth Williams. Very rare to find signed copy in this condition.
White's classic tale of the friendship between Wilbur, a pig, and Charlotte, a barn spider. Hardcovers and original unclipped dust jackets protected by clear Mylar archival cover.
Synopsis
Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E. B. White is a piece of classic children’s literature. Fern Arable, a young girl growing up on a farm, pleads with her father to not butcher the runt of a recently birthed litter of pigs. After being spared, Wilbur the pig spends some time as Fern’s pet before being sold to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman, at which point Wilbur’s adventure truly begins. After being rejected by the other animals at Homer’s farm, Wilbur strikes up an unlikely friendship with Charlotte, a spider whose silky web resides near the pig. When Wilbur learns that he is to be butchered, his arachnid companion hatches a daring plan to save his life. The famous novel has been adapted into a movie, video game, stage production, and is soon to be made into a television series. A feat of storytelling, Charlotte’s Web won the Laura Ingall’s Wilder Medal and was a Newbery Honor book in 1953. Charlotte's Web is one of the best-selling paperbacks of all time. E.B. White rarely signed books, so a signed first edition can run anywhere from a few thousand dollars, to over $25,000.
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- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WHITEEB001
- Title
- Charlotte's Web
- Author
- E. B. White
- Illustrator
- Garth Williams
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Pages
- 184
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Children's; Signed / Inscribed;
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