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Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Harper Collins, UK, 1991.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1991. Limited Edition of 500 copies this being number 341. The Commemorative Edition, published on what would have been the Author's 75th Birthday. It was released a year after his death. Bound in half leather and decorative paper covered boards. Matching card slipcase. Illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Quality production. Book and slip case are fine and very bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 12629##014530
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Jonathan Cape, London, 1991.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: *LIMITED EDITION* Jonathan Cape and Harper Collins, 1991, Commemorative Limited Edition for the 75th anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth of 500 of which this is number 467. 8vo, viii + pp176, illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Hardcover in slipcase. Slipcase is in good condition with a small tear to bottom of back cover. Bound in quarto leather over decorative paper boards with gilt lettering to spine with top edged gilt. The binding is in very good condition except for the paper on bottom of front corner has pealed away.
Seller: Nikki Green Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. The BFG. Jonathan Cape, 1991.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: * Limited Edition*. London: Jonathan Cape and Harper Collins, 1991, Commemorative Limited Edition for the 75th anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth of 500 of which this is number 467. 8vo, viii + pp230, illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Hardcover in slipcase. Slipcase is in good condition with a small tear to top of back cover. Bound in quarto leather over decorative paper boards with gilt lettering to spine with top edged gilt. The binding is in very good condition except for the paper on both top corners has been ripped away. Inside near fine.
Seller: Nikki Green Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Harper Collins, UK, 1991.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1991. Limited Edition of 500 copies this being number 341. The Commemorative Edition, published on what would have been the Author's 75th Birthday. It was released a year after his death. Bound in half leather and decorative paper covered boards. Matching card slipcase. Illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Quality production. Book and slip case are fine and very bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 12629##014530
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: The Commemorative Edition, limited to 500 sets of which this is a mixed set with numbers 459, 464 (Danny the Champion of the World and Esio Trot), and 465 (Matilda). This edition was published on the 75th anniversary of the author's birth on 13 September 1991. The publishers announced this special limited edition stating that "only 500 sets are being produced and no further similar commemorative editions will be permitted for a period of 50 years". The paper used on the boards and the slipcases was a "special paper design. reproduced by courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the machine plates and film to be destroyed after printing". Furthermore, the text was "redesigned in a uniform typeface, and printed on heavy-weight Consort Royal Sword Tint, especially manufactured for this edition. The text plates and film will be destroyed after printing". The books were available only on subscription, with the allocation of sets to be decided by a draw. The original publication price was £1,000. 15 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each volume housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Joseph Schindelman, William Pene du Bois, Donald Chaffin, Jill Bennett and Quentin Blake. Lettering on some spines slightly dull, extremities of some individual slipcases slightly rubbed, later large slipcase; a fine set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom