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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated. Dahl's classic sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This copy with inscribed bookplate from Dahl's last residence, "Gypsy House / Great Missenden / Buckinghamshire", signed and dated by Dahl, Christmas 1972. A difficult title to find with inscription. Very Good to Near Fine, square glue shadow at front free endpaper where bookplate was affixed, bookplate now laid in with glue shadow to verso, in Very Good, original to book, dustjacket with general edge wear and loss of sheen.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Roald Dahl on the page before the title page. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp .The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3858.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Love, Roald Dahl". The novel was first published in the US and appeared in the UK the following year. As noted by the blurb, "Charlie is back!" The novel starts "where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off". Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in pink, front cover with illustration in blue, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. With illustrations by Joseph Schiendelman. Extremities a little bumped, spine slightly sunned, some minor finger soiling, minor marks to edges; extremities of jacket slightly worn, spine slightly sunned, minor abrasion to rear panel, crease to rear flap, price-clipped: a very good copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$6431.39 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To all the children of Mary, with love Roald Dahl." The recipients were the children of Mary Berry, "an attractive lady" with whom he sometimes played poker in London (Sturrock, p. 450). The novel was first published in the US and appeared in the UK the following year. Mary Berry and Dahl first met in New York in 1954 when she and her husband were on honeymoon. Mary's son, Edward Berry, subsequently became friends with Dahl's son, Theo. Mary was also the sister-in-law of Dahl's former lover, Pamela Berry, Marchioness of Huntly. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the newspaper magnate Lord Kemsley, the employer of Ian Fleming. Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, 2010, p. 450. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in pink, front cover with illustration in blue, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. With illustrations by Joseph Schiendelman. Spine faded, foxing to covers, head and foot of spine a little bumped; spine of jacket faded, extremities a little worn with nicks to top of spine and closed tear, creases to rear flap, unclipped: a very good copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom