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Hardcover, 1961. Price clipped. First Edition. Early printings. VERY RARE FOR THIS CONDITION. "bound by The Book Press, New York and Typography by Tere LoPrete" on the colophon. A fine price clipped jacket. Slight wearing and crease to the extremities of the jacket. Red cloth with gold lettering title to spine. Blind stamped portrait inside a wreath on the front cover and the Knopf logo blind stamped on the bottom right hand corner of the back cover. Orange stain to top edges. Completely clean bright inside. Beautiful illustrations. 10" high X 7" wide, 118 pages.

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.