Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1964). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 162 pp. Original crimson cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($3.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners, tips. Handling and shelf wear light, with rubbing, surface nicks and light wrinkles. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild handling, shelf wear present to panels. Page edges mostly bright with a few tiny spots to bottom text block. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. A collector’s copy.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books that every child should read. A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton wrote: "I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults."