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London: Collins, [1944]. [Childrens classic] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[52], with 13 colour plates (one double-page), and many in-text illustrations throughout. In the publisher's red pictorial paper-covered boards, cream cloth spine, pictorial end-papers. Gift inscription (31/10/44) to half title, contents clean, staples rusted and showing, light wear to covers, backstrip a little soiled, rear cover gently sunned. Very good. The author's first book, produced as a tie-in for an unrealised Disney animated film.

NY: Random House, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Walt Disney Studio. Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First edition of Dahl's rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. The author wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore. Disney expressed an interest in making it into an animated film. The author went to California to work on a screenplay that never made it into production. The book was produced from preliminary work done by the Disney artists. A nice copy with light rubbing to covers, mild foxing, no dust jacket. Record # 383734

New York: Random House, 1943.

New York:: Random House,, [1943].. First US edition.. publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards in dust jacket.. A bright, very attractive copy with very slight bumping at the corners and rubbing to the bottom edge (where the board meets the shelf only); in a beautiful bright example of the dust jacket with a few tiny rubbed areas and one short tear to the bottom edge of the back panel. . Folio,. Illustrated throughout.. A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl.

New York: Random House, 1943.

New York: Random House, 1943.

New York: Random House. [1943]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original pictorial boards, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 13 full page (one double page) colour plates and black and white drawings by the Walt Disney Studio artists throughout the text. An attractive near fine copy, the binding square and fresh with just a little shelf wear rubbing at the corners. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the very good rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several small chips to the edges and some archival strengthening to short closed tears and splits on the underside. Not price-clipped ($1.00 to the top of the front flap). Signed and inscribed by Walt Disney in black ink on the half title "To Ann Gale / from / Walt Disney". A highly desirable example of Roald Dahl's first book. The Walt Disney Production referred to on the upper cover was abandoned due to… Read More