The Trumpet of the Swan

New, just out of its shrink wrap and into sealed storage. Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics, Quarto Size 2018 Decorative Edition. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Includes Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Bonded Leather, Decorative Binding. See scans and description. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, undated on copyright page (see scan), but 2018. A much larger edition of the 2013 decorative bonded leather edition, identical to it apart from size, additional spine-end detail (scans), and ISBN number. 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. Brand New; 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 - and largest - of the decorative bonded-leather series, and they're all gorgeous. To read this, 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. LT17