The book’s illustrator Garth Williams kept most of his illustrations for his own, personal collection.
He kept his returned art during his lifetime.
After his death, the family carefully preserved his oeuvre, securing it in a bank vault.
Now the Williams estate is making the art available to collectors for the first time.
All of them were sold off fetching a combined total of $780,245.
Few childrens books have had as much of an impact on pop culture as much as E.B.
“For it to break $150,000 is breathtaking.
Fern bottle-feeding Wilbur as a piglet, sold for $19,120.
The illustration of Wilbur looking triumphant under the web where Charlotte has written TERRIFIC sold for $95,600.
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