James And The Giant Peach By ROALD DAHL First Edition 1961 1st State H. Wolff
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James and the Giant Peach
A Children's Story
by Roald Dahl
First edition, first printing
in unclipped first state dust jacket
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, green endpapers, yellow topstain. First edition, first printing with five line colophon with "Bound by H. Wolff, New York." Very Good with cloth lightly frayed at corners, lightly soiled and with a pencil mark on the rear. Previous owner name removed from ...front paste down. Top corners of pages bumped, pages show an occasional sporadic stain. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $3.95 intact and no ISBN on the rear panel, with fading to the spine, toning, light edge wear and light creasing to the top edge of the front panel. The author's first book for children, preceding his other famous book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This edition preceded the better-known British edition by a full six years, and features color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, different from that edition, as well as a subtitle that was later dropped.
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A Children's Story
by Roald Dahl
First edition, first printing
in unclipped first state dust jacket
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, green endpapers, yellow topstain. First edition, first printing with five line colophon with "Bound by H. Wolff, New York." Very Good with cloth lightly frayed at corners, lightly soiled and with a pencil mark on the rear. Previous owner name removed from ...front paste down. Top corners of pages bumped, pages show an occasional sporadic stain. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $3.95 intact and no ISBN on the rear panel, with fading to the spine, toning, light edge wear and light creasing to the top edge of the front panel. The author's first book for children, preceding his other famous book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This edition preceded the better-known British edition by a full six years, and features color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, different from that edition, as well as a subtitle that was later dropped.
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