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CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
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CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR Hardcover - 1972

by Dahl, Roald; Schindelman, Joseph

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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1972. First edition (stated). Very good plus in near fine jacket.. First printing of the gruesome sequel to the unsettling original. In which Charlie Bucket, having won himself a Chocolate Factory in the preceding book, must leave it behind to do elevator-based space-battle with frankly horrifying creatures. Dahl, criticized by a number of earnest critics with sober concerns over his child-pleasing literary amorality in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, went still further into nightmare realms in this later sequel. Though Dahl takes some time to launch a satirical side-attack on "Space Hotel USA," "manned by the three famous astronauts, Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler, all of them handsome, clever and brave," the book lives and dies by its Vermicious Knids, creations dredged up from the depths of the human subconscious and magnificently deployed to haunt an imaginative young reader for life. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth with pictorial blue and beige boards. In original unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Shindelman throughout. [12], 164 pages. Some mild sunniong to beards and jacket extremities. Else clean and sound.
Used - Very good plus in near fine jacket.
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  • Title CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
  • Author Dahl, Roald; Schindelman, Joseph
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition (stated)
  • Condition Used - Very good plus in near fine jacket.
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A Knopf, New York
  • Date 1972
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 51705
  • ISBN 9780394824727 / 0394824725
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.28 x 0.79 in (24.18 x 15.95 x 2.01 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 720
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 72002434
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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