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118, [2] p. 26 cm. 5 full page illustrations and numerous smaller, in partial colour or b&w. Red cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has some chips and tears to extremities and faded spine. Three inch tape repair on front of jacket. A little soiling to rear. Slight fading to book spine ends. A little discolouration to front free endpaper. Nancy Ekholm Burkert is an American artist and illustrator whose most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book. James and the Giant Peach was her first illustration work. This is Dahl's second book after Gremlins. First Edition, First Issue. American edition precedes the Birtish and is the first issue with 5-line colophon stating "Bound by H. Wolff, New York.".

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.