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James and the Giant Peach
by DAHL, Roald
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Cloth. Very good/very good. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT. [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT, illustrator.
First edition, Second state. SBN 394-81282-4 on rear dust jacket panel, "The Book Press" imprint on colophon page. 4to; 118, [2]pp; red cloth over board, blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; lime green endpapers, gift inscription on ffep marked out in black marker; illustrations in black and red, including frontispiece; 4 color plates; horizontal crease partially across the front board; clipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to edges; very good in vg dj.
First edition, Second state. SBN 394-81282-4 on rear dust jacket panel, "The Book Press" imprint on colophon page. 4to; 118, [2]pp; red cloth over board, blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; lime green endpapers, gift inscription on ffep marked out in black marker; illustrations in black and red, including frontispiece; 4 color plates; horizontal crease partially across the front board; clipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to edges; very good in vg dj.
Synopsis
James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The novel features an English orphan boy named James Henry Trotter cared for by his two abusive aunts. James finds a tunnel in a gigantic peach and enters into a magical world where he befriends seven bugs. He proceeds to embark on a wild adventure with his insect friends, getting into trouble and saving them from sticky situations. The book has frequently become the target of censorship due to its infrequent gruesome and potentially horrifying content. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.
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Reviews
On Mar 13 2016, Peterfryer said:
This is a First printing of the trade edition bound in green and black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Not an ex-library Edition or the school edition which can be identified by the red binding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1758
- Title
- James and the Giant Peach
- Author
- DAHL, Roald
- Illustrator
- Nancy Ekholm BURKERT
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Children's book
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
Thomaston, Maine
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Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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