Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition. First edition, first issue. (Six-lines at rear colophon. Jacket has no ISBN on rear panel.) [xii], 162 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, mustard endpapers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Clean, bright pages with no inscriptions or marks, etc. Jacket price-clipped, lightly foxed, chipped along top of back panel and on bottom of front panel, rubbed with light wear from being used as a surface to write on. The first appearance of the beloved kids' book about gluttony and punishment that formed the basis of two films.

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.