Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in gilt, chocolate- colored topstain. First edition, first state with six line colophon at rear. Mild handsoil to cloth, minor spotting to front endpages. Bottom corners nudged/rubbed. Slight spotting or foxing to textblock leading edge. A few scattered spots to pages. The first issue DJ with no ISBN to rear in mylar is toned, mildly foxed at edge, slightly chipped at points. Sticker remnant to rear panel. Flap price of $3.95 intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) is a children's book by Norwegian-British author Roald Dahl. This story is an adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1967, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1967.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19703
- Title
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...