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The Enormous Crocodile.

by DAHL, Roald.

$5,403 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1978. For my lunch today... I would like a nice juicy little child First edition of the first of Dahl's works to be illustrated by Blake. A prophetic contemporary review in the Times Literary Supplement stated that "the combination of Roald Dahl as storyteller with Quentin Blake as illustrator must be the recipe for a best-seller". Quarto (256 x 197 mm). Illustrated throughout the text in colour by Quentin Blake. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright yellow morocco, lettering to spine in black, wraparound pictorial onlay of the crocodile and the children copied from the original boards, twin rule to turn-ins in black, red endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.

  • Year: 1978
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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