Concerning the Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Hero with Mr Willy Wonka and his Famous Candy Plant.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Concerning the Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Hero with Mr Willy Wonka and his Famous Candy Plant.
Knopf, New York, 1964.
First edition, first issue. Red cloth with gilt lettering and top edge brown, in white based pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white by Joseph Schindelman. A fine copy in a superb fine dustwrapper, which is clean and crisp, with just an invisible short closed tear to the upper panel. A superb copy.
The author's iconic tale of the adventures of a young boy, Charlie Bucket, inside the factory of eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, which established Dahl as a children's writer. The book has achieved a cult status in modern children's literature. The first edition was published in America, preceding the British by some three years.
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