James and the Giant Peach
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The novel features an English orphan boy named James Henry Trotter cared for by his two abusive aunts. James finds a tunnel in a gigantic peach and enters into a magical world where he befriends seven bugs. He proceeds to embark on a wild adventure with his insect friends, getting into trouble and saving them from sticky situations. The book has frequently become the target of censorship due to its infrequent gruesome and potentially horrifying content. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.
Read More: Identifying first editions of James and the Giant Peach
Reviews
This is a First printing of the trade edition bound in green and black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Not an ex-library Edition or the school edition which can be identified by the red binding.
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 429
- Title
- James and the Giant Peach
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
Peruse the Stacks
About the Seller
Peruse the Stacks
About Peruse the Stacks
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...