James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl (1972)

S$90.00

James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl (1972)

S$90.00

Title: James and the Giant Peach

Author: Roald Dahl, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illus)

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. Reprint of the 1st edition, most likely between 1972-1974. Scarce.

Condition: Hardcover, with price-clipped dust jacket. Very good. Some spotting to edges, no other defect.

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About the book (from Wikipedia):

James and the Giant Peach is a popular children’s novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.

The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is “prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.”

Because of the story’s occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of censors.[