JAMES and the GIANT PEACH by Roald Dahl (1st ed. 2nd issue w/Jacket!) 1961
JAMES and the GIANT PEACH. by ROALD DAHL, illustrated by NANCY EKHOLM BURKERT, published by ALFRED A. KNOPF, New York, 1961.
Classic Fiction Novel
James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets.
Second state with four line colophon, BOUND BY The Book Press, New York. Blind-stamped burnt orange cover with gilt spine title. No ISBN. $3.95 dusk jacket. About 10-1/4 x 7-1/4 with 319 pages plus colophon. Book in nice condition with very light wear. The jacket is lightly foxed with mild wear to the extremities and edges. Hardcover book with jacket.