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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

by Roald Dahl

Illustrated by Michel Simeon

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st UK. 1967

Slightly better than good condition. The adventures of James Henry Trotter and an oversized peach! A fast-paced, hilarious saga, in the best traditions of the fantastic. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w text illustrations. 110 pages. 9.5 x 6.5".

Spine bumped and worn. Laminate cracked along sides of spine and some is missing. Endpapers and pages lightly browned. Diagonal crease to front endpaper and prelims. Some foxing and grubby margin marks.

ISBN: 0048230782
Stock no. 1406293

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Contents

  • 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.

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