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The Limited Commemorative Edition.

The Limited Commemorative Edition.

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The Limited Commemorative Edition.: James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Magic Finger; Fantastic Mr Fox; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator; Danny the Champion of the World; The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar; The Twits; George's Marvellous Medicine; The BFG;

by DAHL, Roald

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London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape,, 1991. The limited commemorative edition The Commemorative Edition, limited to 500 sets of which this is a mixed set with numbers 459, 464 (Danny the Champion of the World and Esio Trot), and 465 (Matilda). This edition was published on the 75th anniversary of the author's birth on 13 September 1991. The publishers announced this special limited edition stating that "only 500 sets are being produced and no further similar commemorative editions will be permitted for a period of 50 years". The paper used on the boards and the slipcases was a "special paper design... reproduced by courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the machine plates and film to be destroyed after printing". Furthermore, the text was "redesigned in a uniform typeface, and printed on heavy-weight Consort Royal Sword Tint, especially manufactured for this edition. The text plates and film will be destroyed after printing". The books were available only on subscription, with the allocation of sets to be decided by a draw. The original publication price was £1,000. 15 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each volume housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Joseph Schindelman, William Pene du Bois, Donald Chaffin, Jill Bennett and Quentin Blake. Lettering on some spines slightly dull, extremities of some individual slipcases slightly rubbed, later large slipcase; a fine set.

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Peter Harrington GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Limited Commemorative Edition.
Author
DAHL, Roald
Book Condition
Used
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Hardcover
Place of Publication
London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape,
Date Published
1991
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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...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Gilt
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Fine
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Octavo
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