NMLP P-026661 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl (illus. Nancy Ekholm Burkert) · Alfred A. Knopf (US) · 1961

US Knopf (1961) is the true first, preceding the UK George Allen & Unwin edition (1967). The Wolff colophon, red cloth binding, and Burkert art together define the earliest state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-026661 for "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl (illus. Nancy Ekholm Burkert) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-026661, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).