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London: Collins, 1949. First Edition. Good. Hardcover : pp. [4] 255 [256] : magenta cloth covered boards : tail of block untrimmed. Spine quite sunned; head of spine pushed and a little nicked; red ink ''C'' to front paste-down; block edges tanned, marked and foxed; foxing to endpapers and occasionally throughout; occasional smudge. Roald Dahl's first adult novel.

Published by Collins 1949. Hard Cover. First Edition. Condition: Good. Light edgewear and a few scuff marks. First endpaper missing. Clean copy. No Jacket. .

London: Collins, 1949 8vo. original mauve cloth gilt (rubbed & bumped, wear cloth at extremities and spine, a few slight marks to outer leaves, small nick to FFE, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper). pp. 256 (last blank). A good reading copy of the UK first edition. The author's first novel for adults.. First UK. Hard Cover. G+/No Jacket.

London: Collins,, 1949. First UK edition, first impression. The title was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Dahl would later suppress the novel. Jeremy Treglown notes that "Dahl may... have had Tolkien in mind in writing the story... there are echoes too of Lewis Carroll's mixture of the irrational and the commonsensical. But these elements are combined with the realism of his tougher war stories". Dahl's biographer also suggests that the Leader of the Gremlins in the novel "is a prototype of Mr Willy Wonka" (Treglown, p. 82). Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Extremities a little bumped, crease to front free endpaper, minor foxing to endpapers; unclipped jacket worn with loss to head and foot of spine, closed tear to rear panel, spine… Read More

London: Collins, 1949. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Dahl's first adult novel, a gruesome apocalyptic fantasy on the emergence of Gremlins in the wake of humanity's expected self-annihilation via chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare. 7.5'' x 5''. Original fuschia cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) dust jacket by Stephen Russ. 255, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, minor foxing to endpapers and jacket. Sun and light chipping to jacket spine.

London: Collins,, 1949. The author's first novel which he later suppressed First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The book was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Jeremy Treglown notes that "Dahl may... have had Tolkien in mind in writing the story... there are echoes too of Lewis Carroll's mixture of the irrational and the commonsensical. But these elements are combined with the realism of his tougher war stories". Treglown also suggests that the Leader of the Gremlins in the novel "is a prototype of Mr Willy Wonka". Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A crisp copy, spine slightly bumped, minor crease to spine, some foxing; extremities of… Read More