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Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Red cloth with embossed title on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained chocolate, jacket. First Edition, First State.

Accompanied by a photographs of Dahl signed by him in ink. This is the first state of the first edition, with six lines of printing information in the colophon, which were later reduced to five. Precedes the English edition by three years. The unforgettable story "concerning the adventures of four nasty childred and Our Hero with Mr. Willy Wonka and his famous candy plant."