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a near fine copy in the original red gilt silken cloth, with the red tint top fore edge and the 1st issue dust jacket without the ISBN number. Price 3.95,unclipped dust jacket. 1st edition, 2nd issue with the five line colophon, not six. not quite as rare as the 1st issue, but still rare, there were later issues. Knopf New York, 1964. First edition, first issue. Red cloth with gilt lettering and top edge brown, in white based pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a superb fine dustwrapper, which is clean and crisp, with just an invisible short closed tear to the upper panel. A superb copy. Illustrated in black and white by Joseph Schindelman. The author's iconic tale of the adventures of a young boy, Charlie Bucket, inside the factory of eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, which established Dahl as a children's writer. The book has achieved a cult status in modern children's literature. The first edition was published in America, preceding the British by some three years. Basis of two feature films, the first starring Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka and the second, with Johnny Depp as Willie Wonka. With James and the Giant Peach, this book established Dahl as among of the greatest children's authors of all time. The sub title of the book is Concerning the adventures of four nasty children and Our Hero with Mr. Willy Wonka and his famous Candy Plant. Size: 4to.

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.