And such mishandling of terminology is either willful misdirection (what business analysts call moral hazard) or a palooza of not knowing what one is talking about, and this sort of abuse is so repeatedly utilized by rogue booksellers that it first numbs a buyer’s ability to recognize its preposterousness (like leaking electricity) and then dulls a buyer’s ability to remember that they ought to be insulted (malware for your brain). Item #448 a copy with 5 lines is a reprint, and any description calling it a later issue, or later state is fraud dislodged from its natural home in the bibliographical wasteland of the 1920s. Ours is in a 1st printing jacket with no ISBN number on the back, and it’s the 1st printing book too, with a 6 line (not a 5 line) colophon on the last page. Bibliographically, this book can be an icy road. Fine in fine dustjacket, the colors unfaded and the whites as white as old school chalk, and most copies have a layer of dust on them that looks like they’ve been sprinkled with the ashes of a cremated gopher (in every ruined book there’s a fine book wondering what the hell happened?). 1st edition of Willy Wonka, preceding the London edition.
Dahl, Roald Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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