New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second state with four line colophon. Bound by The Book Press, New York. Orange cloth boards very nice; very subtle bowing; light shelf wear; touch of fraying at corners; very faint soil spot at lower edge of front board near spine. Gilding on spine quite bright. Minor handling soil to edges of text block. Personal inscriptions on free endpapers, front and rear (small one on rear). Moderate wear to dust jacket; small chips at head & foot of spine panel; faint dampstaining, mostly visible from interior; name inscription on front panel, upper; $3.95 price intact; jacket in brodart protector.

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Bookseller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 034090A
Title: James and the Giant Peach illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Author: Dahl, Roald
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: INVENTORYNB

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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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,...
Colophon: The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...