1st State 1st Print $3. 95 James And The Giant Peach Roald Dahl Knopf 1961 US VG
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:29169014 | Format: Hardback w/Jacket |
| Language: English | Subject: Fiction |
| Special Attributes: 1st Edition |
1st State 1st Print $3.95 James And The Giant Peach Roald Dahl Knopf 1961 US VG The Blurb
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags.Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . . At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where wil...l they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . .The Book
This is a Rare 1st State of the 1st Printing of the 1st US hardback edition published by Knopf in 1961. Presented here in the correct 1st state wrapper.
Correct 1st state book with ‘H.Wolff’ to five-line colophon at rear.In 1st state unclipped wrapper with price of $3.95 to front flap at upper right and without ISBN number to lower rear panel.Yellow topstain, Green endpapers.
A better than Very Good condition book with clean green endpapers, bright pages, with the wonderful illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.Five-line colophon to rear.Solidly bound and without marks or inscriptions.Some sunning to spine, with a band across the lower panel top edge.Gilt titles to spine a little rubbed/faded.
In the correct 1st issue unclipped wrapper in Very Good condition.Some wear, shallow chips and nicks to edges.Fairly faded spine, with a couple of marks to jacket panels.With the correct price of $3.95 to front flap and no ISBN to rear panel, as required for the 1st issue.Importantly, free of any restoration.
An accessible copy of this rare and much loved children’s classic.
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