DAHL, Roald.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. First edition, first issue, in the first state dust jacket. Dahl's most famous work appeared in America three years before its publication in Britain. The book's huge commercial success, bolstered by film and stage adaptations, made it central to Dahl's career.The first issue has six rather than five lines of printing information on the final page, and the jacket rear panel does not carry an ISBN in the first state.

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