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THE TWITS
by Dahl, Roald; Blake, Quentin
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good plus jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0224018558
- ISBN 13
- 9780224018555
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First printing. Very good in very good plus jacket.. First edition, review copy (with publisher's slip) of Dahl's novella about a married couple that's nasty inside and out - said to have been inspired by Dahl's dislike of beards. 9'' x 5.75''. Original red paper boards in original unclipped (£3.50) color pictorial jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 80 pages. Publisher's printed review slip, with price ("£3.50") and publication date ("9 October 1980") laid in. Jacket with trace edgewear, bump to top of spine, and faint staining to flaps. Book with touch of bumping to spine edges, foxing to top edge of text block, faint water stains to top edge of endpapers. Otherwise, bright and tight.
Synopsis
The Twits is a humorous children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was written in 1979, and first published in 1980. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51817
- Title
- THE TWITS
- Author
- Dahl, Roald; Blake, Quentin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224018558
- ISBN 13
- 9780224018555
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 20th century,1980s,English & British,Chapter Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. TPM is a member firm of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and upholds their Code of Ethics.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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