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London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Small octavo. Red wrappers printed in black. Covers are lightly rubbed at extremities, a near fine copy. Winner of the 1983 Whitbread Prize for Children's Book of the Year. Filmed by Jim Henson featuring Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson.

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!

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Blake, Quentin. First American edition. Number 24 of a limited 300 copies signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Bound in original blue cloth boards stamped in metallic red. Near Fine or better with lightly bumped corner in a Near Fine original yellow slipcase with light soiling, small area of abrasion near center of opening on one panel and bumped corner. A very lovely copy.

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).