Rhyme Stew
by Roald Dahl
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
DAHL, Roald. Rhyme Stew. Illustration by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape [1989]. 8vo, 80pp. Navy boards with spine stamped in gold. Half-tone illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket.
First edition. An inventive and irreverent collection for older children and adults alike, Rhyme Stew bubbles over with Roald Dahl's extraordinary humor and imagination. This collection of comic verse contains 15 poems including several based on well-known children's fairy stories. The last book by Dahl published in his lifetime.
Synopsis
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary / How does your garden grow? / 'I live with my brat in a high-rise flat / so how in the world would I know?" This book is a collection of Roald Dahl's poems for older children or adults.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049726
- Title
- Rhyme Stew
- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Illustrator
- Quentin Blake
- Format/Binding
- Navy boards with spine stamped in gold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 80pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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