Search Results: james and the giant peach by dahl roald illustrated

Viking, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Viking, 1995. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Viking, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Viking 1995 . large 8vo, small mark to fep VG++/VG++ 350 gms.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First UK edition of 1967, six years after its first publication in the US in 1961. Pictorial laminated boards. Short open slit at bottom of front gutter and upper rear too. Some peeling of laminate, and some light foxing to endpapers. Solid binding, absent any ownership marks.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Second state of the first edition, 1961, with the four line colophon and no ISBN on either book or dustjacket. Very good in fair dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white plus peach. Vivid peach colored cloth, green endpapers, 119 pages plus colophon, illustrated dustjacket. The book has some minor uneven fading to the covers and very light edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.95] and has considerable scuffing ans spotting, very minor chipping to the extremities, tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Early printing of this Dahl classic. Octavo, original cloth, beautifully illustrated, many full-page and in color. Boldly signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. James and the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge peach, in company with several giant insects. Like most of Dahl’s children’s books, it first appeared in print in the United States (Carpenter & Prichard). It was made into the 1996 film produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, directed by Henry Selick, starring Paul Terry as James. "When Tim Burton approached Roald Dahl's widow about his plan to make a film of James and the Giant Peach, she asked him why he wanted to do it. Burton's answer clinched the deal:… Read More

London: George Allen and Unwin. 1967. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original pictorial laminated boards, without dustwrapper was issued. Illustrated with line drawings throughout by Michel Simeon. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and firm and the the fragile laminate film intact. The contents are clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' marks. Housed in a bespoke quarter black morocco solander case with titles in gilt to the spine. A superb example of a notoriously brittle production. The first British printing of this classic of children's literature and the first edition to feature illustrations by Michel Simeon, which remained the standard up until 1990. Quentin Blake first illustrated the book in 1995. The story was first published in America in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, with illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition of this Dahl classic. Octavo, original cloth, beautifully illustrated, many full-page and in color. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper and also signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable signed by both the author and the illustrator. In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. James and the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge peach, in company with several giant insects. Like most of Dahl’s children’s books, it first appeared in print in the United States (Carpenter & Prichard). It was made into the 1996 film produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, directed… Read More