Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
New York: Knopf, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 161 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of Joseph Schindelman's distinctive drawings. Very good in original maroon cloth-covered boards with a previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edge of text block, and a few bumps and small spots of soiling to interior pages, and a very good, price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket with mild foxing to interior and extremities, light rubbing, and some shallow chipping and closed tearing. Very good / Very good. Item #10066
A true first state with the six lines to the colophon, no SBN number to rear of jacket, and it includes the original oompa loompa illustrations. This American edition preceded the UK edition by three years.
Price: $1,650.00