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32 DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 First edition. In a letter to Dahl, editor Bob Gottlieb wrote “I like it very much . . . You’re right: what we want (or should want) for these little ones is stuff with meat, not the yuchy [ sic ] sweetly pretty material we’re exposed to” (Sturrock, p. 504). Octavo. Original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A fine and bright copy. Trace of slight sunning to dust jacket spine, a near-fine, unclipped jacket. ¶ Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl , 2010. £450 [159856] Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 First edition. A contemporary reviewer noted that “For some time now Roald Dahl has been the most popular living novelist that we have for children, despite, or sometimes possibly because of, lapses in taste . . . George’s Marvellous Medicine is a good example of this ability he has to entertain the young often at the cost of offending many of the other sort”. Octavo. Original light blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. 33 DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous
short story found in his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World , described in the dust jacket blurb as “Dahl’s most startling and wonderful tale since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ”. Jeremy Treglown assesses Dahl’s legacy in his biography and notes that not all of the author’s books will last, but concludes “the best – especially The BFG – surely will”. Octavo. Original light grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Black and white illustrations to the text, all by Blake. Minor toning to leaves, as usual; a near-fine copy. Dust jacket slightly toned on reverse, a near-fine and unfaded example of an unclipped jacket. £2,250 [159864] 35 DAHL, Roald. Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Rosemary Love Roald Dahl”. Matilda won the Children’s Book Award in the year of its publication. It formed the basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the successful stage musical which premiered at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Quentin Blake. Ownership inscription of recipient Rosemary Gibble at head of front free endpaper. A near-
fine copy, spine ends gently bumped, light offsetting from presentation inscription to front pastedown and front jacket flap, in very good jacket, not price-clipped, couple of spots of foxing to rear flap, a bright example. £4,250 [159570] 36 DAHL, Roald. Esio Trot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990 dahl’s predication of luck for the ultimate owner of the work First edition with a prophetic inscription from Dahl: “I believe the ultimate owner of this book will enjoy an unusual amount of good luck in the year 1991, Roald Dahl, Sept 1990”. Esio Trot was the last book to be published in Dahl’s lifetime – the author died on 23 November 1990 – and so inscribed copies are uncommon. The work is described by the dust jacket blurb as “a quirky, tender and truly original love story”. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Blake. Negligible bumps to spine ends, else a fine copy in the very good jacket, minor creasing to edges, a couple of shallow scratches to panels, unclipped. £3,250 [159882]
A fine, bright, and crisp copy, in like jacket. ¶ Times Literary Supplement , 24 July 1981, p. 839. £700 [159857] 34 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 signed by the ilustrator First edition, signed by Quentin Blake on the title page. Dahl’s fantastical tale was expanded from a
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37 DAHL, Roald. The Limited Commemorative Edition. London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 1991 limited edition The Commemorative Edition, number 107 of 500 sets. This edition was published on the 75th anniversary of the author’s birth on 13 September 1991 and features
artwork from the original illustrators. The works were originally published between 1961 and 1990. 15 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each volume housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Joseph Schindelman, William Pene du Bois, Donald Chaffin, Jill Bennett, and Quentin Blake. Slipcase a little worn; a fine set. £2,500 [159241]
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