DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1964.
8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, design in blind to front cover, with dustwrapper; pp. 162, illustrated throughout by Joseph Schindelman; wrapper price-clipped; very good.
First edition, second printing with five-line colophon, first state of dustwrapper with no ISBN on rear. Signed by Roald Dahl to slip of paper apparently taken from a Penguin book and pasted to front free endpaper.
Dahl's most beloved story, which follows the adventures of Charlie Bucket and four other horrible children around Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, was first published in the United States, three years before its eventual publication in the UK.
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