James and the Giant Peach

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT. [JUVENILE]. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT, illustrator. First edition, Second state. SBN 394-81282-4 on rear dust jacket panel, "The Book Press" imprint on colophon page. 4to; 118, [2]pp; red cloth over board, blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; lime green endpapers, gift inscription on ffep marked out in black marker; illustrations in black and red, including frontispiece; 4 color plates; horizontal crease partially across the front board; clipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to edges; very good in vg dj. From the front dust jacket flap: "'...marvelous things will start happening to you, fabulous, unbelievable things--and you will never be miserable again in your life.'
So saying, the strange little man thrusts a white bag full of magical 'tiny green things' into Jame's hands and scurries away--but James stumbles and drops the bag, and watches helplessly as all his lovely magic wriggles away into the earth underneath the old peach tree!"

One of Roald Dahl's books that has come under criticism and has been banned in some libraries due to its references to drugs and alcohol, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority.