Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - 1972

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. The book is tight and square with solid hinges. Light wear to corners. Faint scratch to bottom front board and two-inch vertical abrasion to back board near spine. Fading to spine and spine ends gently pushed. Textblock has erased name indentation to top of half-title page, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Light creases to bottom tips of pages 109-123 and 155 to 163. B&W illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. The dust jacket is unclipped $3.95 with light soiling, wear to extremities and creasing to the back panel and front flap (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 163 pages 6¼ x 9¼ tall.

"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men."

This sequel to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" picks up where the original left off, with Charlie Bucket and his parents, grandparents, and Willie Wonka in the magical glass elevator on their way to take over the Wonka Chocolate Factory. However, the three bedridden grandparents are still fussy and dubious and too many buttons are pushed in the elevator. As a result, they ascend too high and wind up in orbit. Fortunately, the great Space Hotel USA is about to open, and they take advantage of their plight to be the first onboard the opulent luxury hotel in space.

But they're not actually the first to arrive. Something has gotten there before them — a thousand nasty somethings from far away in outer space. In their escape, which turns into an international incident of the utmost absurdity, they also have to help a space capsule full of housekeepers, waitresses, and bellhops escape a rampaging swarm of Vermicious Knids.

Once they smash down in the Wonka Works, Charlie and his family must face another crisis: two of Wonka's magical confections — Wonka-Vite, which makes you younger, and Vita-Wonk, which makes you older — lead the Bucket family on an adventure to Minusland and back.