Vile Verses by Roald Dahl - 2005

Viking, 2005. Hardback. Collectible: Very Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Viking - 2005 - VERY GOOD in very good dust jacket. Gently read. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART ONE: THERE ARE THINGS TO SEE AND DO: 1.) The giraffe and the pelly and me -- 2.) The centipede's song -- 3.) Another centipede song -- 4.) Willy Wonka's Wonka-vite ------ PART TWO: BEST BEHAVIOR: 5.) Snow-White and the seven dwarfs -- 6.) Goldilocks and the three bears -- 7.) Concerning Augustus Gloop -- 8.) Concerning Mike Treavee -- 9.) Concerning Violet Beauregarde -- 10.) Concerning Veruca Salt -- 11.) The tortoise and the hare -- 12.) The shark ------ PART THREE: UNLIKELY REATURES: 13.) The grobes -- 14.) The ant-eater -- 15.) The tummy beast -- 16.) The toad and the snail -- 17.) The porcupine -- 18.) There's no knowing what we shall see -- 19.) The nicest creatures in the world -- 20.) Willy Wonka's song of defiance to the Knids ------ PART FOUR: POISONOUS POSSIBILITIES: 21.) Down with children -- 22.) George's marvelous medicine -- 23.) I'm going going going -- 24.) Goldie Pinklesweet ------ PART FIVE: LOOK WHO'S HERE: 25.) Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker about themselves -- 26.) The centipede's song of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker -- 27.) The nurse's song -- 28.) Jack and Jill -- 29.) Boggis and Bunce and Bean -- 30.) Miranda Mary Piker -- 31.) Declaration of the grand high witch ------ PART SIX: ALL TOGTHER NOW: 32.) Crocodile rhymes -- 33.) Pelican songs -- 34.) The giraffe's song -- 35.) The monkey's song -- 36.) The Duchess's song -- 37.) Willy Wonka's song of the oompa-loompas -- 38.) The oompa-loompas' song of welcome -- 39.) Plussy as plussy can be -- 40.) Centipede's favourite song -- 41.) Song of the hairy-green caterpillar -- 42.) Song of the roly -poly bird ------ PART SEVEN: AND A FEW SUPRISES: 43.) Gray's eulogy -- 44.) A ballade against umpires -- 45.) Poems written to schools -- 46.) Mister Unsworth -- 47.) A nobleman visiting Coutts.