Description: Cobweb Castle is a charming modern fairytale illustrated in full color by Edward Gorey. A 7.5x8.5 first edition from 1968 with dust jacket with protective cover from "Holt Library Edition". Excellent condition. The story: Flemming Flinders, a dapper greengrocer more often engrossed in a book than attuned to his turnips, dreams of adventure, fame, and fortune. When the wide-eyed Mr. Flinders finally sets out with high hopes, he finds himself living one of his fairy tales. But everyone he encounters the wart-nosed Drukamella, the beautiful young Ingaborg, and the talking crow with his nemesis, Signor Monteverdi is surely not. In Cobweb Castle, author Jan Wahl and illustrator Edward Gorey whisk readers along to watch Flemming bumble through the brambles of reality, illustrating the extent to which our imaginations can take us. Wahl's prose keeps readers privy as the adventure becomes more frenetic, but the fantasy ends nearly as it started with a swift bonk on the head. Fleming returns to his shop, dreaming.
Price: 21 USD
Location: Boise, Idaho
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Book Title: Cobweb Castle
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Item Length: 7 in
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1968
Type: Short Stories
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Illustrator: Edward Gorey
Item Height: 8 in
Author: Jan Wahl
Personalized: No
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Topic: Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 32 Pages
