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New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 201pp, 1983. First American edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover in a very good dustjacket. No marks or tears.

London, Jonathan Cape 1983.. 208pp. Large 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. Gift inscription, otherwise a near fine copy.. First edition.

LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE. Ex-library book. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Clear plastic cover over DJ. DJ edges taped to pastedowns. NB: book has probably received mild water damage at some point, leaving moderate staining on the DJ. Residue of issuing form on front free endpaper. Damage to edges of pre-title pages, near central binding(no affect on text). Tanned pages. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1983.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. DJ rubbed with some edge wear and closed tears, not price-clipped, interior clean, binding tight, First American Edition.

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket, not priced, so from the earliest pressing of the jackets, smidgen of spotting on top block and on top rear flap, else a lovely copy of the first impression of one of the author's most famous books, winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award for Best Children's Novel. With the cut signature of Quentin Blake loosely inserted.

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket, not priced, so from the earliest pressing of the jackets, smidgen of spotting on top block and on top rear flap, else a lovely copy of the first impression of one of the author's most famous books, winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award for Best Children's Novel. With the cut signature of Quentin Blake loosely inserted.

Very scarce, important, First American Edition, Limited Edition number 144 of 300 signed by both Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Sky blue boards without flaws. Red foil title stamping on spine, red foil mouse on cover. The spine on the top edge is barely cocked (see photo). Sunshine yellow original slipcase with 1" slight soiling (black scuff). Foot of slipcase has a tiny wear spot. Otherwise fine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Octavo. No dustjacket as issued. Winner of the Whitbread Book Award (1983). One of the most frequently challenged books on the ALA banned books list. The book was adapted into an unabridged audio reading by Lynn Redgrave, a stage play and a two part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Angelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, a 2008 opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus, and a 2020 film directed by Robert Zemeckis.FIND ANOTHER ONE!

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First edition of Dahl’s Whitbread Award-winning children’s novel, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Dahl's The Witches centers on the experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. "Don't be fooled by those witches with their black hats, black cloaks and broomsticks, though, those are not REAL WITCHES. Real witches are exceedingly difficult to spot in the wild and dress in ordinary clothes, looking very much like ordinary people." Dahl's vital indicators for spotting a real witch include facts like they always wear gloves, they have no toes, are bald as boiled eggs and they have blue spit. “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).