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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Collectible - Good. NY: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1983. Stated 1st American edition. Hardcover 8vo 202 pgs. B/w illustrations. Near very good in a good dust jacket. Bump and tear to top corner of front cover. Spine ends lightly bumped. Owner's ink gift inscription at top corner of half title pg. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn and has a slight waterstain at top edge of front panel. Price clipped. (Witches, Juvenile Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First US edition of Dahl's now-classic story of a young boy and his grandmother's dealings with a gathering of fearsome witches. Twice adapted into film, Dahl's titular antagonists have become fixtures in the canon of children's story villains. Distinct in their ability to pass as ordinary women, but bald, toeless, and clawed underneath their impeccable disguises, the Witches appear here in their first and arguably most memorable visual iteration: Blake's iconic illustrations. One of the BBC's "100 most influential novels" — and, in this cataloguer's opinion, the author's best. 9.2'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth, light blue paper boards, stamped in yellow to front board, lettered in yellow and black to spine. In original unclipped ($10.95) color pictorial jacket. Black endpapers. vi, 202 pages. Jacket with slight curling and tiny closed tears at top edge, couple faint creases. Book with race soil to top edge, else crisp and tight.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Quentin Blake. A wonderful first impression of one of Roald Dahl's most popular novels, an eerie fantasy with illustrations by Quentin Blake. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A dark fantasy children's novel by Roald Dahl, one of his most popular works.'The Witches' follows a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a dangerous world, in which a society of children hating witches exist in every country, run by the formidable Grand High Witch.Illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout by Quentin Blake. Blake is well beloved for his iconic illustrations of Dahl's novels, the two becoming synonymous.Former owner's inscription of Caroline Baker to half title. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to half title. A touch of sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with edgewear to back strip head and tail, and small loss to tail of front wrap at fold over flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, but clean. Near Fine

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is stamped ' Review copy not for sale. NZ Retail Price 14.95' on the fep. Note the 14.95 is in pen. Pre- first edition review copy. Some light pushing to the spine tips. Faint tanning to ep's. Light foxing to the prelims and closed page edges. The jacket has some very minor light shelf wear, is not price clipped at 6.50 net UK and has light internal foxing.

London: Cape, 1983. A first edition, first printing of 'The Witches' published by Cape in 1983. A fine book in like unpriced/unclipped wrapper. The best copy we have handled for a while.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Small octavo. Red wrappers printed in black. Publisher's compliments slip laid into book stating: "with compliments Antony Howard, Chatto, Bodley Head & Cape Services Limited." 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.

Jonathan Cape, 1983. 2nd print First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Blake, Quentin. Signed by Author. ~~Signed with dedication by Roald Dahl~~VG/VG 2nd print 1st ed 1983 Cape hardback, unclipped DJ with correct price of £6.50, illustrated by Quentin Blake. A little rubbing wear and pushing to spine ends, gentle page tan, tight and unmarked. Very scarce. Illustrator: Blake, Quentin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0224021656. ISBN/EAN: 9780224021654. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 089030.. 9780224021654

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Reprint. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Signed by Roald Dahl and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, light foxing, light offsetting from Dahl's signature onto the front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First edition, first printing. published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1983. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has some mild wear to the top and tail of the spine, with some slight tearing to the top. There are handling marks to both panels, and slight rubbing at the edges. It has not been price clipped. The text blocks are slightly toned and a little foxed at the side and top edges. SIGNED to a bookplate on the front free endpaper by Dahl and without dedication. Accompanied by one of a limited edition of 360 (this being 21) published by the Roald Dahl Story Company of Dahl's manuscript for his alternate ending to the book. Designed by Laura Coppolaro, the very good folder is a little stained and much of the string is missing. This is exceptionally scarce The "alternate ending" for Roald Dahl's The Witches exists in a special 360-copy edition of the book, containing a version where the hero stays a mouse and he and his grandmother become witch hunters. In this version, after the witches are defeated, he and his grandmother use the Grand High Witch's machine to find and eliminate witches world-wide, accepting his short mouse life-span to continue the fight. This is a variation of the book's original, darker ending, which differs from the happier conclusion of the 1990 movie adaptation.