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SOMEONE LIKE YOU
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Signed first edition of Dahl's Edgar Award-winning collection, including his celebrated murder-by-leg-of-lamb story "Lamb to the Slaughter," along with seventeen horrifying others. 7.25'' x 5''. Original tan and lavender cloth. In original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket designed by Charles E. Skaggs. 359, [1] pages. Signed by Dahl on front free endpaper. Boards lightly bumped, offsetting to endpapers. Minor stain to upper edges of pages 155-158. Light edgewear, moderate toning and soil to jacket. Overall, sound.
Synopsis
Roald Dahl is known for his sense of dry, sometimes dark humor in his children's books...but then there is this. Someone Like You is a darker collection of tales for adults, and mature young adults. There's the tale of the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, a lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, and more. Some stories included: "Someone Like You," "A Dip in The Pool," "Skin," "Taste," "Lamb to the Slaughter, "Claud's Dog," and "Galloping Foxy."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50430
- Title
- SOMEONE LIKE YOU
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- 20th century,1950s
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About the Seller
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