Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.: The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1972. Inscribed to Mary Berry's children 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. 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. Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, 2010, p. 450.