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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, United States
Item Price
$1,300.03$1,105.03
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952 First edition, first printing. Stated first edition on the copyright page with the code I-B<p>
The book is in near fine condition. Nice end papers with no writing.
Inside pages clean and unmarked.<p>
Dust jacket is price clipped, mylar covered, Faint chips at the top and bottom of the spine. A small 1/2" tear top of dust jacket spine. Very
tiny nick to the dust jacket top corner. A 1/2" tear top edge to the back of the dust jacket.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008786
- Title
- Charlotte's Web
- Author
- E. B. White
- Illustrator
- Garth Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Bethany, Missouri
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