Matilda

by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

£675 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Children's Literature FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 24 x 16cm , pp.240. With in-text illustrations by Blake throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated jacket, also by Blake, priced at £8.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges of text block fresh, jacket virtually as new. A fine copy. Lovingly and hilariously illustrated by Dahl's long term collaborator, Quentin

• Printing: first

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