Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

by DAHL, Roald.

$5,158 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1964. The gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him... First edition, first issue, in the first state dust jacket. Dahl's most famous work appeared in America three years before its publication in Britain. The book's huge commercial success, bolstered by film and stage adaptations, made it central to Dahl's career. The first issue has six rather than five lines of printing information on the final page, and the jacket rear panel does not carry an ISBN in the first state. Octavo. Frontispiece, line drawings in the text, all by Joseph Schindelman. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover stamped in blind, yellow endpapers, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Head of spine faded, spine slightly leaning; jacket unclipped, spine toned with 20 mm split to foot, scattered shallow chips and short closed tears to edges, faint mark to front panel: a very good copy in like jacket. Grolier Children's 100, 98.

• Year: 1964
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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