Bridge Terabithia by Paterson Katherine, First Edition (21 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1ST. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Diamond, Donna (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Donna Diamond (illustrator). First Edition. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Very faint sunning to inside top boards edges. Top-edge: just a few spots. Clean contents. Line drawings. Binding is As New. 128p Dj: clean jacket. Light rubbing and few only scratches. Spine: faint touch of sunning; head with paperthin wear and teeny chips. Teeny chip to head & foot of flaps spines.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Donna Diamond (illustrator). 1st Edition. This book is a third printing of the 1977 first edition. The book is in fine condition with clean interior pages and a dark blue cloth cover with no flaws. The dust jacket is excellent having two small repaired tears at the bottom front of the jacket. Picture available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1978. 128 pages. First Edition; third printing with numberline 10-3. Original DJ with $7.95 price intact on flap; no mention of this title winning the Newbery award; yet the Newbery medal sticker is affixed to DJ front. The book is tight; binding and hinges are strong. Minor soiling to rear panel; minimal rubbing at tips. DJ shows a couple of minor, faint wrinkles near edge; a small closed edge tear; a small chip at foot and crown; an open chip on upper rear edge; and minimal soiling. Flaws are overstated; a nice early copy of the classic.

Victor Gollancz. London. 1978. First Edition, UK. Hardback with wrapper. Illustrated. Very small indentation to rear board and head and tail of spine very slightly faded. The pages are very clean and fresh. The wrapper is very slightly worn along extremities and has a very small indentation to rear cover. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Donna Diamond (illustrator). 1st Edition. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, 13th printing (number line starts at 13) of the 1978 Newbery Medal winning novel. Publisher is the original publisher, Thomas Y. Crowell, not HarperCollins. Signed by Katherine Paterson and inscribed on a bookplate affixed to the FFEP. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards. Newbery Medal on front panel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Diamond, Donna (illustrator). 1st Edition. Second printing with number row ending in 2. Black cloth boards, very light shelf wear; boards warp outwards ever so slightly. Minor wear and handling soil to dust jacket; a couple short closed tears; no major tears or chips; $7.95 price intact; Newberry Medal on front; jacket a little stretched from previous brodart with paper backing, now in non-backed brodart. Inside clean, no inscriptions or foxing, etc. Happy to send pics.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1978. 128 pages. Signed by Katherine Paterson directly to the title page; without inscription. First Edition; first printing with full numberline 10-1. This signed first edition, first printing requires restoration as the FFEP is detached; and endpapers need replacing. There are a total of two old school stamps within that look like they could be neutralized fairly easily. Cloth shows scuffing. In short the hard part is done; as it is a signed first printing; now it needs some restorative love. This copy is housed in a contemporary DJ that has been married to this copy. Signed first edition, first printing of the 1978 Newbery winner. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with a contemporary owner's name on the front free end paper along with a notation that the book won the Newberry in 1977. Otherwise an excellent copy overall. Jacket retains original $7.95 price, with a few short tears or creases, but overall bright and unrestored. Printed in an inital printing of 7,000 copies, first printings are relatively scarce on the market. When Jesse befriends the class outcast Leslie, the two join forces to create a rich imaginary world called Terabithia. Together in their wooded kingdom, the two children face ogres and encounter magical creatures that help them sort through the difficulties they confront in their real lives. And then, an unexpected tragedy brings adulthood all too soon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of the 1978 Newbery Medal winning novel. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, light rubbing at tips, former owner name to front free endpaper and pages lightly toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light restoration at spine ends, points of flap folds and the mending of a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel, and a price sticker to the front flap. A surprisingly difficult title to find in the first printing.

First edition of the author's first Newbery-Award winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Ann Davis Katherine Paterson 11/18/77." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and has become a touchstone of children's literature. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Gábor Csupà from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell, starring Josh Hutcherson, Anna Sophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick.

First edition of the author's first Newbery-Award winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For ___ ____- 'Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.' Katherine Paterson 9/3/22 *From the movie script by David Paterson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed. In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and has become a touchstone of children's literature. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Gábor Csupà from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell, starring Josh Hutcherson, Anna Sophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick.

First Edition. "PATERSON, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1977). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,000.Most exceptional first edition of the quintessential children's book about loss, signed by Katherine Paterson and specially annotated by her with over 1300 handwritten words describing the writing process and her experiences after publication, all intended to bolster this copy's value for a Christie's auction to benefit the PEN/American Center."Paterson, who has already earned regard with her historical fiction set in Japan, proves to be just as eloquent and assured when dealing with contemporary American children and Americans of very different backgrounds at that. Jess, from an uneducated family in rural Virginia, has been practicing all summer to become the fastest runner at school a reputation more desirable than his present image as 'that crazy little kid who draws all the time.' But Jess is beaten in the first race of the fifth-grade year by a newcomer who is also the first girl ever to invade the boys' part of the playground. Soon Jess and Leslie, whose parents have moved from the suburbs because they're 'reassessing their value structure,' become close friends. On her lead they create Terabithia, a secret magic kingdom in the woods, and there in the castle stronghold she tells him wonderful stories about a gloomy prince of Denmark, or a crazy sea captain bent on killing a whale. She lends him her Narnia books and lectures him on endangered predators but he teaches her compassion for a mean older girl at school. Indeed Leslie has brought enchantment into his life. Then one morning, with the creek they must swing over to reach Terabithia dangerously swollen by rain, and Jess torn between his fear of the maneuver and his reluctance to admit it, he is saved by an invitation to visit the National Gallery with his lovely music teacher. The day is perfect but while he is gone Leslie is killed, swinging into Terabithia on their old frayed rope. Jess' feelings range from numb denial to rage to guilt to desolation (at one point the thought occurs that 'I am now the fastest runner in the fifth grade') typical grief reactions, but newly wrenching as Jess is no representative bibliotherapeutic model. By the end, he is ready to think about giving back to the world something of what he had received from Leslie. You'll remember her too" (Kirkus).This copy was specially annotated by Katherine Paterson for an auction at Christie's intended to benefit the PEN/American Center. Here, she has added more than 35 annotations totaling more than 1300 words providing deep insight into Paterson's ideas and intentions as the author of this work. Paterson has also added photographic images of her son, David, and his friend, Lisa, on whom the novel's protagonists were based. David also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film adaptation. This work also includes a copy of an excerpt from David's childhood journal discussing the pain of being admired for being a character in the book given that the highly traumatic death of his best friend, Lisa, was the book's inspiration.On the title page, Paterson has written: "This is where I usually autograph, having learned the proper page at the Library of Congress Well, they should know, shouldn't they? So here's the autograph Katherine Paterson 1/1/14."On the front pastedown, she has written: "One of the early reviews said this was a classic case of 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' Nobody at T.Y. Crowell felt it did justice to Donna's original, but I don't recall any disappointment with it and certainly the illustrations in the book are lovely.On the verso of the front free endpaper, Paterson has written: "First editions of Bridge are a bit hard to come by almost 40 years later as the first printing was a modest 7,000 copies. When it won the Newbery in January 1978, a second edition was launched immediately, but the truck carrying the unbound books got stuck in a blizzard and for days no one knew where it was. The publishers were frantic, to say the least."On the copyright page, she has written: "Lisa had gone with her family to a Delaware beach. She was dancing on a rock above the beach when she was struck by lightning. Try explaining that to your eight-year-old son. I couldn't, so I wrote a book to make sense of the tragedy for myself, because life often doesn't make sense, but a story will need to."On the dedication page, Paterson has affixed color photographic images of David and Lisa, as well as a copy of an excerpt from David's journal comparing being the real-life Jess to having a cool scar that draws attention from the underlying pain of the injury.Opposite the first page of text, Paterson has written: "There was an article in some flight magazine about bad first sentence in otherwise good books. When a friend told me that a book of mine was included, I immediately quoted the first sentence of Bridge and, of course, I was right. But, heck, people have kept reading past it." The sentence in question reads: "Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity Good."On page 1: "Too many similes on one short page?"On page 4: "An African-American fifth-grader asked me if I'd named Jesse Aarons after Jesse Owens. 'Yes, I did,' I said, 'but I hadn't realized it until you asked the question.' Readers are so smart." Paterson has also underlined the character's full name.On page 10, referring to Jess' comical drawing of a hippo, the details of which are underlined by Paterson: "This was a shared joke with a friend from my childhood."On page 12, referring to a description of Jess' teacher, Miss Edmunds: "Description fits my 7th grade English teacher a truly beautiful woman."On page 16, next to an arrow pointing to the printed line "Baripity, baripity, baripity": "It keeps coming back like a song."At the beginning of Chapter Three: "The description of Lark Creek School the crowded baseme. Signed.