Concerning the Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Hero with Mr Willy Wonka and his Famous Candy Plant.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Concerning the Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Hero with Mr Willy Wonka and his Famous Candy Plant.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, second state. 8vo. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and stamped in blind on the upper cover, in white based pictorial dustwrapper. Top edge brown. Mustard yellow endpapers. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. A fine copy in a very good priceclipped dustwrapper, short closed tears to the head and tail of the spine, and remnants of a previous ownership name to the upper cover.
The author's iconic tale of the adventures of a young boy, Charlie Bucket, inside the factory of eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, which established Dahl as a children's writer. The book has achieved a cult status in modern children's literature. The first edition was published in America, preceding the British by some three years. This copy with the 5 line printer's information on the final page and price of $3.95 on the dustwrapper front flap.
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