New York: Alfred A. Knopf [1972], 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 163 pp. Very Good book with some darkening and areas of discoloration to the textblock and a few hints of fading to the edges of the boards in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of tiny areas..... More
London: Viking, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. 376 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. First printing of the first combined edition with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Gift inscription on free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped and shows traces of edge wear. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. 41 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. A handsome copy of an earlier printing (circa 1970) of Dahl's third book for children. More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company [1929], 1929. Later edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Bound in red cloth with pictorial boards, endpapers, and pastedowns. Dust jacket is illustrated. With twenty-eight colored illustrations throughout the text. A nice example of one of the earlier unauthorized American editions of this beloved children's classic (gift inscription..... More
New York: The Heritage Press [1936], 1936. Later Edition. Hardcover. 284 pp. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell (8 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations for the chapter headings). Lacks the Sandglass. A Very Good+ book with a small separation between the backstrip and the textblock and a slight misalignment..... More