James Giant Peach Childrens by Roald Dahl, First Edition (10 results)

120 pp. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition, second issue with 4-line colophon. Ink gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper; otherwise near fine in a tanned, price-clipped dust jacket with several tiny chips and tears.

FIRST EDITION, SIXTH IMP., super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 111pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & bruising to extrems- esp. at spine, moderate chafing & light peeling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor foxing to prelims & terminals).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). First Edition. Tight clean book in uniformly red (or burnt-orange) boards with blindstamp decoration to front and bright gilt titles to spine; unmarked but for name and place/date to copyright page. 4 line colophon indicating second issue. In price-clipped dust jacket, rubbed with various edgewear from 2 one inch tears to 2 cm deep chip rear top edge, and touches of corner wear. ; 120 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st UK edition. 1st UK edition, 1967. A Very Good copy. No jacket as issued. 8vo. Light blue, illustrated paper boards. A bit of wear at the spine's crown and foot. The board's laminate if lifting with a small section gone at the spine's crown area. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL DECORATED BOARDS, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 x 7 INCHES. SOME WEAR & TEARS AT THE TOP EDGES OF SPINE WHICH IS MOSTLY TO FRONT, THE USUAL LOSS TO SOME OF THE ORIGINAL LAMINATE COVERING AROUND THE SPINE & INNER EDGES OF FRONT & REAR BOARDS [SEE IMAGE] RUBBING TO FRONT EDGE OF SPINE, OCCASIONAL MARKS OR LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES, NAME TO FRONT ENDPAPER, OCCASIONAL MINOR WRINKLES TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOK HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.

110pp. Small 4to. Original pictorial, papered boards, slight wear to backstrip. Black and white illustrations. Booksellers sticker on ffe. A very good, bright copy. First UK edition.

[Children's classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.112. Publisher's glazed pictorial boards, illustrated throughout the text with black and white line drawings. Contents clean without spotting, no inscriptions. Notoriously fragile covers are in very good condition, showing gentle use, some laminate shrinkage and wear. An attractive example. Basis for the Oscar-nominated 1996 family feature film [Best Original Musical]. Listed in BBC's Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003].

[Children's classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.112. Publisher's glazed pictorial boards, illustrated throughout the text with black and white line drawings. Contents clean without spotting, no inscriptions. Notoriously fragile covers are in very good condition, showing minor wear to spine ends, some laminate shrink as usual, and a little wrinkling to lower edge. A presentable example. Basis for the Oscar-nominated 1996 family feature film [Best Original Musical]. Listed in BBC's Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003].

First edition, with the five-line colophon, presented here in a fantastic example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. The publisher wrote to Dahl on 5 July 1960 stating, "If this doesn't become a little classic, I can only say that I think you will not have been dealt with justly" (Treglown, p. 124). An early advert for the book noted that "one is tempted to say that not since Alice has there been such a wonderland. The difference is that James is all boy and what transpires in the story is anything but Victorian" (New York Times). Described as "rude, naughty, anti-adult, creepy, and sometimes cruel" (ODNB), James and the Giant Peach was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996, which was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score" the following year. There have been numerous stage adaptations and one musical version. New York Times, 26 October 1961; Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl: A Biography, 1994. Quarto (252 x 175 mm). Colour frontispiece and 4 plates, tinted plate, 19 in-text illustrations, of which 10 are tinted, all by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, multicoloured pictorial onlay on front cover after original dust jacket design, titles blocked in black and red, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, pink endpapers, edges gilt. A fine copy.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing with five line colophon with "Bound by H. Wolff, New York." [viii], 119, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow topstain. A Fine copy in correct dust jacket with publisher's price of $3.95 intact and no ISBN on the rear panel, easily Very Good+ with chipped head and tail, faint crease and a few small stains to spine panel, two small pieces of tape reinforcement to verso. The author's first book for children. This edition preceded the better-known British edition by a full six years, and features color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, different from that edition, as well as a subtitle that was later dropped.