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0 7th imp. published by Jonathan Cape, London 1983. Toning to pages. No marks or inscriptions. DJ has minimal wear

London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards clean, and sharp. Title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels very lightly read. Light bumps to foot of spine. Near fine condition. Jacket grades near fine, some minor crimping to edges. 4mm tear to foot of spine, otherwise clean and unmarked. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A near fine copy of this Roald Dahl omnibus title, contains the fabulous stories George's Marvellous Medicine, Matilda and The Witches

LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE. Ex-library book. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Clear plastic cover over DJ. DJ edges taped to pastedowns. NB: book has probably received mild water damage at some point, leaving moderate staining on the DJ. Residue of issuing form on front free endpaper. Damage to edges of pre-title pages, near central binding(no affect on text). Tanned pages. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1983.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), October 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible (VG)/Very Good. First. VG/VG. First Us edition in price clipped Dust jacket. Some creases to inner flaps of DJ and bump to corners. Now protected in Brodart sleeve. No marks and binding is solid. A nice copy of this classic Dahl tale.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Clean dark turquoise cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: dark yellowed, moderate foxings. Half-title page and refp with vertical dj shadowing. Clean contents. Illustrated. Binding is As New. 208p Dj: faint dusting of a little soiling and rubbings. Spine: mildly sunned; head & foot with thin wear and chips. Not price-clipped.. First Edition. HB. VG/VG. Illus. by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some light tanning which appears to be prevalent to this title. Light foxing to the closed page edges and very faint foxing to the prelims. The jacket is price clipped and has very minor shelf wear.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some light tanning which appears to be prevalent to this title. Light foxing to the closed page edges and light foxing to the prelims. The jacket is not price clipped at 6.50 net, has a hint of foxing.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Collectible - Good. NY: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1983. Stated 1st American edition. Hardcover 8vo 202 pgs. B/w illustrations. Near very good in a good dust jacket. Bump and tear to top corner of front cover. Spine ends lightly bumped. Owner's ink gift inscription at top corner of half title pg. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn and has a slight waterstain at top edge of front panel. Price clipped. (Witches, Juvenile Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Folio Society,, 2022. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in colours, metallic endpapers, ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case.

London: Cape, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Jonathan Cape 1983). First UK Edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake. Publisher's blue boards, titles to spine in gilt. With the Quentin Blake designed dustwrapper. Some foxing/browning to the top end fore-edges; base of spine bumped and bruised with little bit of surface loss. About VG. The dustwrapper (priced £6.50 net to the inside flap) is also about VG and is faded to the spine with a small chip at the bottom left hand corner of the spine with a tiny nick in the dustwrapper. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983. The basis for the 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film "Roald Dahl The Witches" co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, and Kristin Chenoweth. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Cape, 1983. A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1983. A very good book without inscriptions. Some bumping to corners - small stain to foot of page block - some foxing. In a very good dust wrapper with some light loss to the corners. Not priced, or clipped and an internal repair to head of spine - a couple of small closed tears. In 1983, the year it was published, The Witches won three awards: The New York Times Outstanding Books Award, The Federation of Children's Book Groups Award and The Whitbread Award. A film version of the story was released in 1990, and another in 2020 starring Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock and Octavia Spencer.

London: Folio Society, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. All books are 1st Printings. Unaltered text. Brand new copies in slipcase.

Folio Society,, 2021-2022. 6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in colours, metallic endpapers, ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-cases.

Jonathan Cape. 8vo., aquamarine publisher's boards, lettered in gilt along the spine; in the unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Quentin Blake (£6.50 net); pp. [vi], 7-206, [ii]; illustrated throughout with line drawings by Quentin Blake; a near-fine copy of this classic children's work, the pages ever-so-slightly toned, with spine tips a touch pressed; jacket, aside from some minor creases and a couple of spots to the rear flap, also near-fine. First edition. The Witches, one of Dahl's best-selling books, tells the frightening story of a world in which Witches abound, occasionally gathering under the leadership of the Grand High Witch, who plots to turn all unsuspecting children into mice. Although now perceived to be one of his greats, the book received mixed reviews upon publication, but its popularity has remained and it has been adapted for film twice - once in 1990 and another in 2020, with Anne Hathaway in the lead role. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is stamped ' Review copy not for sale. NZ Retail Price 14.95' on the fep. Note the 14.95 is in pen. Pre- first edition review copy. Some light pushing to the spine tips. Faint tanning to ep's. Light foxing to the prelims and closed page edges. The jacket has some very minor light shelf wear, is not price clipped at 6.50 net UK and has light internal foxing.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1983. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake, paper stock beginning to brown as usual; publisher's blue boards, titles to spine gilt, small mark to the front free endpaper, Quentin Blake designed dust-jacket, lightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. A classic dark tale from a master of the genre, the macabre menace only slightly mitigated by the target audience being children. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, The Witches was also successfully dramatised on several occasions, most famously perhaps the 1990 film featuring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, which featured a differing ending from that in the book (much to the author's chagrin). Intriguingly, it has also found itself at one time or another banned for perceived misogyny, as Dahl states that only women can be witches: 'I do not wish to speak badly about women,' the author writes. 'Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Small octavo. Red wrappers printed in black. Covers are lightly rubbed at extremities, a near fine copy. Winner of the 1983 Whitbread Prize for Children's Book of the Year. Filmed by Jim Henson featuring Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson.

Jonathan Cape, 1983. 2nd print First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. Signed by Author. ~~Signed with dedication by Roald Dahl~~VG/VG 2nd print 1st ed 1983 Cape hardback, unclipped DJ with correct price of £6.50, illustrated by Quentin Blake. A little rubbing wear and pushing to spine ends, gentle page tan, tight and unmarked. Very scarce. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0224021656. ISBN/EAN: 9780224021654. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 089030.. 9780224021654

Very scarce, important, First American Edition, Limited Edition number 144 of 300 signed by both Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Sky blue boards without flaws. Red foil title stamping on spine, red foil mouse on cover. The spine on the top edge is barely cocked (see photo). Sunshine yellow original slipcase with 1" slight soiling (black scuff). Foot of slipcase has a tiny wear spot. Otherwise fine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Octavo. No dustjacket as issued. Winner of the Whitbread Book Award (1983). One of the most frequently challenged books on the ALA banned books list. The book was adapted into an unabridged audio reading by Lynn Redgrave, a stage play and a two part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Angelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, a 2008 opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus, and a 2020 film directed by Robert Zemeckis.FIND ANOTHER ONE!

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake at limitation page: "This edition of The Wtiches, signed by the author and the illustrato, is limited to three hundred copies, of which this is copy number '177'. 'Roald Dahl,' 'Quentin Blake.'" Stated First American Edition, 1983, at copyright. Brilliant blue cloth boards, stylized red metallic spine titles, slight shelf wear. Red metallic vignette of mouse about to feast on beans. Pages very good; no writing. Last couple with slight 1/2" blue bleed from bottom; also fairly faint bleed near gutter of lower exterior text block. Fine matte blue endpapers at front and back. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautiful original yellow slipcase, slight shelf wear; light blue bleed to interior. Dedication page To Liccy. Sharp near fine limited edition. The Witches was the 1983 winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Books. Left an orphan at age 7, the hero… Read More