CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
First printing of the gruesome sequel to the unsettling original.
Very good minus in a good plus jacket.
Price: $150.00
CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
"I thought those were grobes," Charlie said. "Those oozy-woozy grobes you were telling the President about." "Oh, no, I just made those up to scare the White House," Mr. Wonka answered. "But there is nothing made up about Vermicious Knids, believe you me."
In which Charlie Bucket, having won himself a Chocolate Factory in the preceding book, must leave it behind to do elevator-based space-battle with frankly horrifying creatures. Dahl, criticized by a number of earnest critics with sober concerns over his child-pleasing literary amorality in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, went still further into nightmare realms in this later sequel. Though Dahl takes some time to launch a satirical side-attack on "Space Hotel USA," "manned by the three famous astronauts, Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler, all of them handsome, clever and brave," the book lives and dies by its Vermicious Knids, creations dredged up from the depths of the human subconscious and magnificently deployed to haunt an imaginative young reader for life.
The Object
First edition (stated). New York: Alfred A Knopf, (1972). 9'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth with pictorial blue and beige boards. In original unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Shindelman throughout. [12], 164 pages. Jacket creased and rubbed with some edgewear. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Fading, wear at extremities. A bit worn, but presents well.
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