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Illus by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, 10 x 7", embossed red cloth, 119pp, extremities bumped and a bit worn, spine a little cocked, in a rubbed, soiled, edge-worn/torn/chipped dustjacket with a fairly faded spine. FIRST EDITION (AMERICAN PRECEDES THE UK EDITION), FIRST ISSUE with five-line colophon, "Bound by H. Wolff, New York", and $3.95 price on dustjacket.

James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl. It was first published in 1961 and tells the story of a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets along the way. The novel is known for its whimsical narrative, imaginative description, and creative characters.