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134. DAHL, Roald THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICKE Century, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Blue boards lettered in gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper. Illus- trated in black and white and colour by Quentin Blake. A near fine copy with a stain to the back board, in a near fine dustwrapper with a stain to the top edge. [46278] £65 Roald Dahl wrote this in the last few months of his life, for the benefit of The Dyslexia So- ciety. 135. DAHL, Roald ESIO TROT Cape, 1990. First Edition. 8vo. Blue boards lettered in gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper. Illus- trated by Quentin Blake. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [46279] £125 A charming tale about a neighbour’s ro- mance blooming over a love for their tor- toise (esiotrot backwards). 136. DAHL, Roald THE MAGIC FIN- GER Allen & Unwin, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Paper covered boards illustrated in colour. Many il- lustrations by William Pène du Bois, including pictorial endpapers and some double page illustrations. A very good copy, slight dustiness to boards, indentation of erased pencil marks to the half title. [46280] £300 Dahl had originally begun work on the book in 1962, under its original title of The Al- most Ducks. In the story, an eight-year-old girl, who hates to see animals killed for fun, develops a special power, similar to that of
Matilda. The book was part of a project in which a group of writ- ers were asked to create a story for children with a limited vocab- ulary. Dahl, who was very much against animal cruelty, wrote this anti-hunting story against “all the brave deer hunters and duck hunters in the country”. How- ever, Dahl’s publishers were ini- tially wary of repercussions from the US gun lobby and so waited until their option to publish had expired. It was later published by Harper & Row in New York in 1966 under the present title.
137. DAHL, Roald DIRTY BEASTS Cape, 1983. First edition. 4to. Glazed pictorial boards. No dustwrapper, as issued. Lots of bold colour illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett. A very good copy, with light rubs to spine tip. [46285] £125 Dahl’s comic verse.
138. DAHL, Roald REVOLT- ING RHYMES Cape, 1982. First edition. 4to. Glazed pic- torial boards with colour il- lustration to upper cover. Il- lustrated throughout in colour by Quentin Blake. A near fine copy with a small puncture to rear board. [46465] £350 In this book Dahl tells in rhyme the “true” version of some well known fairy tales. In Cinderella, for example, Dahl tells us that although we think we know the story “The real one’s much more gory.”
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