Roald Dahl Nancy Ekholm Burkert (112 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Condition: Very Good. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm (illustrator). Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine: 1973 1st Puffin Edition The book does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. There is no obvious damage to the cover the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. There are no missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. It may have very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover as well as very minimal wear and tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. Originally published in 1961, this copy most likely from the early 1950s. Four full page peach and black tinted engravings, plus additional illustrations. Light blue hardcover with black cloth spine, gilt spine lettering and decoration, 119 pages, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in good condition shelf rubbing and minor chips to the spine ends that do not interfere with the lettering. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. BURKERT NANCY EKHOLM (illustrator). 1st Edition. SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT AN EARLY PRINTING LACKING THE ISBN NUMBER AND NICELY ILLUSTRATED BY NANCY ECKHOLM BURKERT BOOK STATES " BOUND BY BOOK PRESS NEW YORK ON 4 LINE COLOPHON ON LAST PAGE ONE SMALL INDENT TO TOP OF FRONT COVER OTHERWISE VERY BRIGHT AND WELL PRESERVED TOP OF TEXTBLOCK IS WHITE NOT DYED BOUND IN LIGHT RED WITH PERFECT GOLD LETTERING AND DESIGN BOOK MENTIONS CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY AND THE FANTASTIC MR FOX ON COPYRIGHT PAGE PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE A VERY NICE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS BELOVED CLASSIC.

Early Printing with 4 line colophon with Bound by Bookpress; small 4to.; embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 119 pages; black and white and color illustrations; some internal foxing and foxing on the boards else good in a price-clipped, sunned and edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. includes dust jacket. First Edition, Second Issue with 4 line colophon, 'Bound by the Book Press'. Dust jacket is very worn and torn. Cover shows minor shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). The author's first children's book. Made into the 1996 film. First American edition (not stated), which precedes the British edition by six years, second issue (bound by The Book Press). Measures 7.5" x 10.5", bound in red cloth with gilt lettering along the spine, green endpapers, top edge yellow. Small spot of fading at the crown of the spine, else near fine. No dust jacket. ; 120 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). First edition, 2nd state. Cover has some edgewear. Dust jacket edgeworn and chipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: good+. Dust Jacket Condition: good+. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Author's 1st book. 1st Edition, 2nd state with 'Bound by The Book Press' in the 4-line colophon on last page; 120 pages; green eps with a previous owner name on free front ep; note to previous owner on frontis; b/w & 1 & 2-color illustrations; 10" tall; light fading & shelf wear to edges of red covers with blind stamped decor on front; very faint moisture drops on back; gilt lettering on spine; 3.95 on front flap of dj; some chips & tears & darkening to edges of toned dj in new protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Second state of the first edition, 1961, with the four line colophon and no ISBN on either book or dustjacket. Very good in fair dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white plus peach. Vivid peach colored cloth, green endpapers, 119 pages plus colophon, illustrated dustjacket. The book has some minor uneven fading to the covers and very light edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.95] and has considerable scuffing ans spotting, very minor chipping to the extremities, tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HC. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover. 2nd Issue, with 4-line Book Press colophon. $3.95 price on front flap fold with ISBN on rear DJ. Spine extremities bumped. Two 1/8" tears in spine tail cloth. Else binding quite clean. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. A bit of soil to endpapers. Else pages are clean. DJ spine extremities and corners are bumped, rubbed, with a 1/4" tear at the spine tail. Light rubbing down flap folds. One pencil eraser size and one pencil point size brown spot on DJ front panel. Very faint smudge on DJ front panel, and a bit of rubbed soil to DJ rear panel. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; CFH15A; 119 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). 1st Edition. This 1961 volume is in near fine condition with clean interior pages and a bright orange cloth cover. The dust jacket is very good with slight edge wear. There is a 4 line colophon and a $3.95 price on the jacket flap. It is a first edition, second state copy of this well known book. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. 8vo. 119 pp. with whimsical black and white and color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert throughout. Later, but early, printing of one of Dahl's classics. Bound by The Book Press, with a four [4] line colophon, this is the issue in light blue boards with a darker quarter spine and a nine [9] digit SBN [precursor to the ISBN] on the rear jacket panel. Front flap of the dust jacket is clipped, so no original price appears there. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1961. Colophon has four [4] lines and says "Bound by The Book Press, New York" which is indicative of this being the second printing. Dahl's first children's book. The rear dust jacket flap of this copy mentions Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, making this edition from 1972 or so [although the only date printed in the book is 1961]. A very nice copy of an early edition of the children's classic. Very Near Fine. The only noticeable flaw is a 2 1/2" x 4" card taped to the last blank page of the book in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). First Edition. Tight clean book in uniformly red (or burnt-orange) boards with blindstamp decoration to front and bright gilt titles to spine; unmarked but for name and place/date to copyright page. 4 line colophon indicating second issue. In price-clipped dust jacket, rubbed with various edgewear from 2 one inch tears to 2 cm deep chip rear top edge, and touches of corner wear. ; 120 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Borzoi edition; price clipped; gilt lettering to spine, no ISBN number on rear dj.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). 119 pages. Publisher's yellow topstain; green endpapers; 4 line colophon; no ISBN; "his first book for children" stated on final leaf, and rear flap. Price clipped jacket with foxing, abrasions, and short tears. Book is clean and unmarked, save for a spot of soiling to lower edge of textblock. Jacket now in a removable archival sleeve. 10.2 x 7.4 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). This book appears to be a second state or second printing, based on how others sellers are identifying their books (NAP, no ISBN numbers). It is bound by the Book Press and has the four-line colophon. However, the dust jacket appears to be of the first printing, as there is no ISBN number on the rear panel. It also priced at $3.95. All of the second state or second printing books that I saw listed were wedded with jackets that had the ISBN number on the rear panel. Both the book and the dust jacket are in very nice condition. Beginning with the book, you can see the covers in the photos. There is some fading to yellow from orange at the margins and definitely on the spine. That may be the only flaw in the book beside a little bit of crinkling at the spine ends, and a few darkish spots on the bottom edges. There's no rubbing at either the cover edges or corners. There's no conspicuous staining or soiling on any of the page edges. There is no foxing anywhere in the book. The top page edge does not have a topstain, something I've seen referenced by a few sellers. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The inside covers and end papers are green. They're perfectly clean. The end papers have a little bit of minor crinkling. The pages are in fine condition. They are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I wasn't able to find even one instance of soiling. The same goes for creasing. I didn't see any creasing at all. That is certainly unusual. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. All of the illustrations look terrific. The dust jacket is in really nice condition. There are no tears, and there are no chips or losses. There are only a few tiny bits of rubbing. The white flaps are in very nice condition, very clean, no soiling. There are no tears, no losses. There is some crinkling at both top edges. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. I removed this cover in order to get some photos without glare. I refitted it with a new protective cover for some pictures that I scanned afterward. Limited to five photos: if you want a photo of the book's spine, let me know. From the jacket: 'In his first book for children, the famous author of Kiss Kiss has woven a fast-paced, hilarious saga, in the best traditions of the fantastic; and Nancy Ekholm Burkert's elegant illustrations bring the fabulous characters vividly to life.' Nancy Ekholm Burkert 'is an American artist and illustrator. Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book. She won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Special Award for Valentine and Orson in 1990. James And The Giant Peach was her first illustrated book.' 'James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been re-illustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon (for the first British edition), Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 (with Smith being a conceptual designer) which was directed by Henry Selick, and a musical in 2010. The plot centers on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is 'prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.'] Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of censors.'.

HB ORANGE. Condition: very good. JACKET: GOOD. BURKERT, NANCY EKHOLM (illustrator). General shelf wear, gold gilt lettering on spine, blind stamped illustration on the front board, green end pages, some illustrations are grey tone and some have one or more colors. Last page of text "About the Author" are four lines of publishing info including "The Book Press." PO name on FEP, very good binding. DJ NOT price clipped ($3.95), a few closed tears on edges, chipped in a few places, rubbed extremities, rear of cover has 394-81282-4 at bottom right corner, worn at head and foot of spine, rear flap specifically states about Dahl "his first book for children." CR page also states "L.C. Catalog card number 61-8127" A SCARCE high grade copy of this 1961 first year American Publication. DATE PUBLISHED: 1961 EDITION: 119.

Early printing of this Dahl classic. Octavo, original cloth, beautifully illustrated, many full-page and in color. Boldly signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. James and the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge peach, in company with several giant insects. Like most of Dahl's children's books, it first appeared in print in the United States (Carpenter & Prichard). It was made into the 1996 film produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, directed by Henry Selick, starring Paul Terry as James. "When Tim Burton approached Roald Dahl's widow about his plan to make a film of James and the Giant Peach, she asked him why he wanted to do it. Burton's answer clinched the deal: 'It's the only book that ever gave me any hope when I was a child" (D is for Dahl, 68).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Later Printing. Dahl's first book for children, fantastically illustrated by Burkert; basis of the 1996 film. An early printing, but not the scarce first. Dating this book precisely is difficult: most copies listed are much later printings, though called 'first edition, second state' even by dealers who should know better - see note at the end of this listing. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration, yellow top edge, green endsheets; four-line production note on the last page; first state jacket with $3.95 price on flap, no ISBN on rear panel; no mention of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which puts it between 1961-67. Light wear to book & jacket, minor edgewear, near fine. Text clean; [8], 119 pages + colophon; color & b/w illustrations. A remarkably nice example. PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The first state of this book has a five-line production note on the last page, naming Wolff as the binder, and including paper provider Glatfelter. Dahl's bio notes no other children's books but does mention his own three children. The second state has the same bio, but has omitted Glatfelter and changed Wolff to The Book Press, which it remained for MANY YEARS, into the 1980s. In the third state, perhaps beginning around 1970, the Author's Note lists 4 other children's books by Dahl and omits other biographical info, except that he has four children. The four-line listing of production details remains unchanged. By around 1980, the bio remains the same, but the printer has changed from Rheel to Rae, and the binding, previously in red, orange, or orangy-yellow cloth is now a blue cloth spine over light blue or blue-green boards. There are at least six early jacket states: the first has a price of $3.95 on the front flap, notes Dahl's three children and that this is his first children's book on the rear flap, also noting artist Burkert's two-year-old. There in NO SBN number on the rear panel. It was in use from 1961 to about 1967. The second state, while not aging the artist's daughter, adds an SBN to the rear panel, dating it to 1968 or later. The third state still has the $3.95 price but credits four titles & four children to Dahl, and three titles to Burkert, while omitting reference to her children. A fourth state, around 1973, has the $3.95 blocked out, and $4.95 printed instead; yet-later states have printed prices of $4.95 and $5.95 while retaining the same wordage on the rear flap, and nine-digit SBN on the rear panel. By 1980, the flap price was $6.95. There are also several states of the copyright page, but suffice it to say here that if it lists the ISBNs, it was printed after 1970 and is not the 'second' printing or state but MUCH LATER. This information was gleaned from an afternoon of examining listings with sufficient photos, and should not be regarded as authoritative, but it is accurate enough to ballpark most early printings. Size: 7¼" by 10¼".

Hardcover in dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Later Printing. This book is hard-bound in red orange cloth, with blind-stamping to the upper cover and gilt stamping to the spine, in a price-clipped, 2nd issue dust jacket with an ISBN on the lower panel. The DJ shows light soiling/foxing, and wear/a few closed tears to the edges. The covers show light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, light sunning to the bottom edge of the covers, and with a small, very faint stain to the bottom edge of the upper cover. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally clean with illustrations, including some in color but also with a bit of light scattered foxing to a few pages. This book is signed/inscribed by the illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert, on the half title-page. This book is hard-bound in red orange cloth, with blind-stamping to the upper cover and gilt stamping to the spine, in a price-clipped, 2nd issue dust jacket with an ISBN on the lower panel. The DJ shows light soiling/foxing, and wear/a few closed tears to the edges. The covers show light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, light sunning to the bottom edge of the covers, and with a small, very faint stain to the bottom edge of the upper cover. The binding is solid.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, Second Isssue, with Bound by The Book Press, New York at colophon page. Fine in bright red cloth, in Near Fine dust jacket, small spot of soil front cover, price on jacket flap of $3.95 inked out with inked price of $3.29, a few small edge tears and chips, mainly at top edge and flap folds. With wonderful illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. This was Roald Dahl's first book for children. Basis for the 1976 BBC TV film starring Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, and Ann Beach, and the 1996 animated film starring Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Postlethwaite, and Susan Sarandon. A lovely copy of this enduring children's favorite story. Size: Tall 8vo. Book.

Condition: Near fine in good jacket. First issue. First edition of one of Dahl's best children's books: characteristically bizarre, wicked, and heart-warming. When Dahl published his first book for children with Disney, GREMLINS (1943), he believed it was a happy one-off and focused instead on developing his career as a writer for adults. Nearly two decades later, Dahl published JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH as his second children's book, finally moving into the field where his writing would develop into a powerful legacy. The darkness of Dahl's worlds for children have often been objected to by adults - this book regularly features on lists of banned or challenged books in American libraries - but for many children, it is the spark of fantasy within bleak settings that appeals to the imagination without becoming saccharine: Tim Burton famously told Dahl's widow he wanted to turn JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH into a film because "it's the only book that ever gave me any hope when I was a child" (D IS FOR DAHL). 10'' x 6.75''. Original full blind-stamped red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($3.95) pictorial dust jacket. Green endpapers, yellow topstain. Illustrated by Burkert throughout in full color, red and black, and black and white. Wolff credited as binder in 5-line colophon. [8], 119, [1] pages. Jacket cleanly severed at rear joint, creating two parts but without much loss; spine and top margins toned, with some additional wear and a small chip to fore-edge folds. Book with a touch of sunning to top edge, else clean.

Second State, with four-line colophon reading "Bound by The Book Press, New York." Octavo (26cm); orange cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with pictorial elements embossed onto front cover, and no ISBN present on rear cover; dustjacket; [viii],118,[2]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, faint trace of foxing to text edges, else a bright, Near Fine copy. In the first state dustjacket, price-clipped, with no ISBN number on rear panel, and only Someone Like You and Kiss, Kiss listed beneath the "About the Author" paragraph on the rear flap; gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and some faint, scattered foxing to upper front panel; Very Good+ or better. A pleasing copy of Dahl's beloved children's book, following the travels of a young orphan boy in a giant peach, with a group of magically-altered garden insects. Basis for the 1996 Walt Disney film directed by Henry Selick.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, Second Issue, with Bound by The Book Press, New York at colophon page.Bright red cloth,Very Good unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chips, large chip to base of spine. Price on jacket flap of $3.95.