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New York: Puffin, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. 19th ptg. Very good Paper covers with wear on edges and corners. Light rubs on covers, corners and edges, bottom corner chipped, minor ink marks on front cover.

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. 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.

NY:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,. Fine. 1983. Hardcover. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Limited edition: this copy is number 204 of 300 copies. SIGNED by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. Fine in a fine slipcase. ; 202 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition. First US edition. Signed by author and illustrator. 1/300 copies. Comes in publisher's yellow slipcase. Book and slipcase in fine condition. Both housed in supplied slipcase.