Charlotte's Web

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. Williams, Garth. January 1962 printing (A-M code), $2.95 jacket price. Very good in good jacket. Bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, jacket toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1952 Hard Cover. 184 pp. Original light beige cloth with black and aquamarine titles (not the later pictorial cover), web illustration on endpapers. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. The book was illustrated by Garth Williams. Publishers Weekly listed the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000. Written in White's dry, low-key manner, Charlotte's Web is considered a classic of children's literature, enjoyable to adults as well as children. The description of the experience of swinging on a rope swing at the farm is an often cited example of rhythm in writing, as the pace of the sentences reflects the motion of the swing.