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London: Jonathan Cape. 1982. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by Roald Dahl and also signed with a full page original drawing by Quentin Blake. Publisher's original grey cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with the unavoidable toning of the text block due to the quality of the paper, are otherwise clean throughout and without foxing or previous owner's marks. Complete with the very near fine lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has a touch of fading to the spine. Not price-clipped (£6.50 net to the lower front flap). Housed in a bespoke quarter black morocco solander case with titles in gilt to the spine. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "To William / with love / Roald Dahl", overleaf on the half title the illustrator has… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape. 1980. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by Roald Dahl and also signed with an original drawing by Quentin Blake. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Brilliantly illustrated by Quentin Blake with black ink wash drawings throughout. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing or previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine ever so slightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price clipped (£3.50 to the front flap). Housed in a bespoke quarter red morocco solander box with titles in gilt to the spine. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "To Ben / love / Roald Dahl / 1980". Overleaf on the half title, the illustrated has inscribed "for Ben / best wishes / Quentin Blake / 2010" around which he has penned an original… Read More

1983. First Edition . Signed. DAHL, Roald. The Witches. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983). Octavo, original blue-green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $13,500.First edition, presentation copy, of Dahl's Whitbread Award-winning children's novel, with in-text illustrations by Quentin Blake, warmly inscribed in the year of publication across the entire front endpaper to a close friend of Dahl's son, Theo, and a frequent visitor to Dahl's writing hut during the writing of Boy: ""To Justin with love, Roald Dahl. Oct. 28th 1983.""""Roald Dahl knows every bit as well as Bruno Bettelheim that children love the macabre, the terrifying, the mythic. In his latest book, The Witches, a 7-year-old orphan boy, cared for by his Norwegian grandmother, discovers the true nature of witches and then has the misfortune to be transformed into a mouse by the Grand High Witch of All the World… It is a curious sort of tale but an honest one, which… Read More

American magazine Aspen, ""the first three-dimensional magazine"", was published in ten issues between 1965 and 1971. It was edited by Phyllis Johnson and featured contributions from many renowned and influential artists, among them Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, John and Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, LaMont Young. The ten issues cover Pop Art, conceptual art, minimalist art, postmodern critical theory, new voices in British arts and culture, the Fluxus group, art and literature of the psychedelic drug movement, and Asian art and philosophy. 'The editor Phyllis Johnson, who used to spend her winters in Aspen, Colorado, understood that the great spirit of experimentation that defined the art scene in the sixties demanded a new form of presentation. This is how ASPEN. The Multimedia Magazine in a Box was born in 1965. It was the first ever three-dimensional magazine. Subscribers received a box containing material for… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition of this Dahl classic, which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "Nicola Love Roald Dahl." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator Quentin Blake opposite Dahl's inscription. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed by both Dahl and Blake. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of the twentieth century. Dahl's ability to twist words into a clever and creative new language is fascinating to children, and is evident in BFG. The gruesome descriptions of the horrid giants and the subtle allusions to other stories will entertain children young and old. An animated adaptation was released in theatres in 1987 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It was also the basis for the 2016 film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

[Paris, France: Seldow, 72, Rue Bonaparte, Paris - VI, ca. 1945]. Thick 4to. 10.75 x 12.25 x 2.5 in. [194 pp (unpaginated).], on thick paper stock, nearly all leaves carefully blocked out in pencil for the caption space to the photographs, w/ many of the chapters and sections including neat manuscript pencil titles, as well as annotations for performers and acts. With 266 silver gelatin photographs, sized from approx. 1 x 2 in. up to 9.5 x 12 in., nearly all mounted, or tipped-in directly to leaves, some w/ photographer’s stamps either w/in negative or on verso (several carefully blocked out in preparation for publication), ownership markings, occasional pencil & pen annotations on versos in German, French, or English. Contemporary black-cloth backed post-binder, brass screw posts at gutter margin, photo plate filling front board repeating the photographic title w/in, w/ 3 leaf typescript “Foreword” by Cochran laid-in w/ red pencil editorial markings, and stapled at upper left corner (some… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase.. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and illustrator. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. Ably illustrated by Quentin Blake, Dahl's frequent collaborator, whose frenetic gestural drawings quiver with life and indelibly define the characters. After CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, one of Dahl's best and most beloved titles. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market. 9'' x 5.75''. Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles. In original blue-grey slipcase. x, 222 pages. Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page. Clean, sharp, and bright throughout.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1988. An inscribed copy First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title, "To Donn, Love, Roald Dahl, 1988". Matilda won the Children's Book Award in 1989. It formed the basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the successful stage musical which premiered at the RSC's Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010. A film adaptation of the musical was released in December 2022. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With supplied dust jacket. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Quentin Blake. Lightly marked and bumped, nick to spine foot, text clean; unclipped jacket with minor creases and pale foxing to flaps, else bright: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1985. With additional drawings by Quentin Blake First edition, first impression, beautifully embellished with an original ink drawing signed by the illustrator on the title page. The drawing is dated November 2014 and depicts the Giraffe, the Monkey and the Pelican, the latter with a beak-full of fish, joyfully interacting with the illustrations on the title page. Quarto. Original illustrated boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, dark blue endpapers. No dust jacket issued. Illustrations throughout by Quentin Blake. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, corners slightly rubbed, minor abrasions to boards; a very good copy.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1980. A playfully inscribed copy First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Jonathan with love Roald Dahl, Dec. 1980". The inscription is written on the rear free endpaper upside-down, in keeping with the topsy-turvy rear panel of the dust jacket. The jacket blurb commences, "Mr and Mrs Twit are dreadful". Dahl wrote this tale as a deliberate reaction to the typical saccharine story for children he thought flooded the market. In a letter to Dahl about The Twits, his editor agreed: "I like it VERY MUCH... You're right: what we want (or should want) for these little ones is stuff with meat, not the yuchy [sic] sweetly pretty material we're exposed to" (Sturrock, p. 504). Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Internally fresh; jacket spine sunned, panels bright, a little marked and creased, a couple of nicks and one short closed tear, unclipped: a near-fine… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition, early printing of this Dahl classic, which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "with love Roald Dahl April, 1989." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of the twentieth century. Dahl's ability to twist words into a clever and creative new language is fascinating to children, and is evident in BFG. The gruesome descriptions of the horrid giants and the subtle allusions to other stories will entertain children young and old. An animated adaptation was released in theatres in 1987 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It was also the basis for the 2016 film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1983. A beautifully bound copy First edition, first impression. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, the book was adapted into a stage play and a two-part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. Octavo (222 x 149 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, titles to spine and front board onlaid in pale blue morocco and blocked in black, pictorial onlay wrapped around front and back board after the original dust jacket, twin rule to turn-ins in black, plain blue endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a bright blue flat-back cloth box. With black and white illustrations. A fine copy.

New York, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1982. . Limited deluxe first US edition, number 70 of 300 copies, signed by the author and illustrator; 8vo; illustrated throughout in black and white; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to upper cover, grey marbled endpapers, housed in original blue cloth slipcase; a fine example. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1978. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original laminated boards. Illustrated in colour by Quentin Blake throughout. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with minor bumping to the bottom of the spine, the colours bright and without fading. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Inscribed by the author in black ink to the verso of the front endpaper "To Russell / love / Roald Dahl / 6.10.85". An important book in Roald Dahl bibliography. The Enormous Crocodile was the first of Dahl's books to be illustrated by Quentin Blake, beginning one of the most notable partnerships of author and illustrator in late 20th century children's literature. "The combination of Roald Dahl as storyteller with Quentin Blake as illustrator must be the recipe for a bestseller" - Times Literary Supplement, 29 September 1978.… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1981. Signed by the author First edition, first impression, signed and dated "Roald Dahl 6 March, 1982" on the front free endpaper in purple. Jeremy Treglown found that the book "owes something to a circus act or a Punch and Judy show", and notes that Quentin Blake "lightens things by visually reminding the reader both how small George is, and... how lonely and innocent". A contemporary review noted that, "For some time now Roald Dahl has been the most popular living novelist that we have for children, despite, or sometimes possibly because of, lapses in taste... George's Marvellous Medicine is a good example of this ability he has to entertain the young often at the cost of offending many of the other sort". Octavo. Original light blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A copy with notably bright contents. Minor damp staining to head of rear cover and free endpapers, foxing to top edge; some damp staining and light… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. First American Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first American edition, number 20 of 300 copies, signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt, housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the slipcase with a corresponding bump to the top corner of the covers of the book itself, else Fine.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals (adults) squirm with displeasure He is undeniably special" (Connolly, 104). Basis for the 1996 Danny DeVito directed film, starring Mara Wilson, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris.

London: Collins, 1980-82. A set of three first edition, first printings published by Collins between 1980-82. Each title has been signed (without dedication) by Bernard Cornwell and the dust wrapper artist, Tony Kerins. Each book is near fine (or better) in like unclipped wrappers (some spotting to the top edge of Eagle and price strike-through to the DJ of Gold). The books additionally include a piece of original artwork by Tony Kerins to the half title page. Each piece of artwork replicates a theme from the story and is initialled by Kerins (as TK). All books are signed also by Bernard Cornwell. Tony Kerins left the Royal College of Art in 1978 where he was tutored by Quentin Blake. A the age of 18, Tony was commissioned by Harper Collins (then Collins) to create the dust wrapper artwork to Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe's Eagle' - two more followed - Kerins' depiction of Sharpe was the first to be seen by readers. An exceptionally rare triple of signed and illustrated books.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1980. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a hint of bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly spine faded dustwrapper which remains without loss or tears and retains the correct £3.50 net publisher's price to the front flap. A lovely copy. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "Best wishes / Roald Dahl / 7 March 1981 [underlined]", inscribed by the illustrator in black ink on the title page "Best wishes from / Quentin Blake / Dec 1983". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.