Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics (Leather Bound Classics)
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Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics (Leather Bound Classics)
New, and gorgeous. First Edition Thus, Second Pinting. See scans and description. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. Charlotte's Web and two other of E.B. White's masterpieces - Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan - very decoratively bound (see description) and with the original illustrations. Stout octavo, teal green-blue bonded leather boards with color plate cover illustration and gold & black line illustration and imprinting on both covers and spine; All Edges Gilt; decorated spine is rib divided; gold satin page-marker ribbon; patterned endpapers, as well as an extra free endpaper at each end in gingham design. Illustrations by Garth Williams (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web), Fred Marcellino (The Trumpet of the Swan), and Paul Girard (cover and spine decorations, other than Williams' color plate). 598 pp.+ an extra page each for brief bios of the author and the two original illustrators. New, and completely pristine in every way. Removed from publisher's shrinkwrap only for scanning and description, then carefully stored in archival protection. Eye-candy for the shelf or the cocktail table. See all scans. One of the nicest of the decorative bonded-leather series, and they're all gorgeous. To read these, buy paperbacks. Timeless children's fiction in a heck of a collector edition. See all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. L49