Buy this book on-line DAHL**, ROALD - compiled by Tom Maschler : CHARLIE and the Chocolate FactoryLONDON.VIKING,1995. ISBN 0670852473.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[First Quentin Blake illustrated edition;
reissued again in 1997 as Qrto HB,but with
colour illustrations and a different colour pictorial dw/dj.]NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial,Quentin Blake illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/tanned
- as usual/normal - contents bright,tight
and clean.Clean,dark green paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,11- 189pp includes half-title+title pages, contents+characters lists,30 chapters and profuse b/w line illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Roald Dahl's own favourite illustrator, Blake illustrated several other books of the author's work,during the author's lifetime, and these new illustrations bring considerable enchantment to this story.
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Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant.Educated at Chiselhurst,Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes
at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965-78) and Head of the Illustration Dept since 1978.He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety
in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.He was chosen as the first Children's Laureate in 1999.
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