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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Signed -
Roald Dahl
1964 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Edition, First Issue
A fine, signed, and thus golden ticket example of the first edition first issue.
Starring ‘Our Hero’ Charlie Bucket, with the infamous Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was inspired by Roald Dahl’s time spent working at the age of 13 at Cadbury, the English chocolate maker. He was amazed by all the machinery and by the spies sent by both Cadburys and their biggest rival Rowntrees to steal each others secret recipes.
Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. The first edition first issue with six lines of printing and binding information in the colophon, reduced to five in later issues, and published three years before the English edition, in the first issue dust jacket priced at $3.95 and without ISBN number.
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Price HK$ 50,000
1964 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Edition, First Issue
A fine, signed, and thus golden ticket example of the first edition first issue.Starring ‘Our Hero’ Charlie Bucket, with the infamous Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was inspired by Roald Dahl’s time spent working at the age of 13 at Cadbury, the English chocolate maker. He was amazed by all the machinery and by the spies sent by both Cadburys and their biggest rival Rowntrees to steal each others secret recipes.
Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. The first edition first issue with six lines of printing and binding information in the colophon, reduced to five in later issues, and published three years before the English edition, in the first issue dust jacket priced at $3.95 and without ISBN number.
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Price HK$ 50,000