Editore: Knopf, New York, 1961
Da: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. 8vo. 119 pp. with whimsical black and white and color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert throughout. Later, but early, printing of one of Dahl's classics. Bound by The Book Press, with a four [4] line colophon, this is the issue in light blue boards with a darker quarter spine and a nine [9] digit SBN [precursor to the ISBN] on the rear jacket panel. Front flap of the dust jacket is clipped, so no original price appears there. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1961. Colophon has four [4] lines and says "Bound by The Book Press, New York" which is indicative of this being the second printing. Dahl's first children's book. The rear dust jacket flap of this copy mentions Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, making this edition from 1972 or so [although the only date printed in the book is 1961]. A very nice copy of an early edition of the children's classic. Very Near Fine. The only noticeable flaw is a 2 1/2" x 4" card taped to the last blank page of the book in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1961
Da: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: ABAA
Second State, with four-line colophon reading "Bound by The Book Press, New York." Octavo (26cm); orange cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with pictorial elements embossed onto front cover, and no ISBN present on rear cover; dustjacket; [viii],118,[2]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, faint trace of foxing to text edges, else a bright, Near Fine copy. In the first state dustjacket, price-clipped, with no ISBN number on rear panel, and only Someone Like You and Kiss, Kiss listed beneath the "About the Author" paragraph on the rear flap; gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and some faint, scattered foxing to upper front panel; Very Good+ or better. A pleasing copy of Dahl's beloved children's book, following the travels of a young orphan boy in a giant peach, with a group of magically-altered garden insects. Basis for the 1996 Walt Disney film directed by Henry Selick.