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ROALD DAHL’S SEQUEL TO CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY ROALD DAHL

DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. New York: Knopf, (1972). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition, inscribed across the entire front free endpaper: “To Phil & Fred. LOVE Roald. 1972.”

The further adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willie Wonka, with in-text illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. “Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals (adults) squirm with displeasure… He is undeniably special” (Connolly, 104). Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine with slight soiling and vertical crease to front flap. A lovely inscribed copy.