Matilda
£495 · 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 and fresh, trivial marks to fore edge, jacket with no fading whatsoever. An excellent copy. Lovingly and hilariously illustrated by Dahl's long term collaborator,
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