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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Stain to spine crown. True First Edition, First Issue with the six line colophon [printing information] on the last page. This was cut to five lines in the second issue. Correct first printing jacket without ISBN number to lower rear panel. Original red cloth, title device to upper board in blind, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained purple, mustard endpapers, original dustjacket. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. This US edition precedes the English by three years. Dahl's story was first immortalized on the screen in the 1971 movie (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) starring Gene Wilder. With the release of the Tim Burton version starring Johnny Depp this first edition has continued to rise in collectibility and value.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a delightful novel by Roald Dahl that tells the story of a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who finds a golden ticket in a chocolate bar, granting him a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious and magical chocolate factory.