DAHL, Roald.

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James and the Giant Peach. First edition, with the five-line colophon, of Dahl's "rude, naughty, anti-adult, creepy, and sometimes cruel" (ODNB) children's tale, illustrated in delicate and macabre detail by Nancy Ekholm Burkert."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).

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