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James and the giant peach : a children's story / Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR6054.A35 J36 1961 copy 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dahl, Roald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Insects--Juvenile fiction.
- Insects.
- Peach--Juvenile fiction.
- Peach.
- Loneliness--Juvenile fiction.
- Loneliness.
- Aunts--Juvenile fiction.
- Aunts.
- Insects--Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction, English.
- Peach (Fruit)--Fiction.
- Loneliness in boys--Fiction.
- Aunts--England--Fiction.
- Magic crystals--Fiction.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction -- Juvenile.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [©1961]
- Summary:
- A fairy tale about James Henry Trotter, an unhappy little orphan who lives with his aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. Story tells of various adventures.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "Text set in Walbaum ... Typography by Tere LoPrete."--Colophon.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Author's and illustrator's first book for children.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dahl, Roald. James and the giant peach.
- ISBN:
- 0394812824
- 9780394812823
- 0394912829
- 9780394912820
- OCLC:
- 225704
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