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0 7th imp. published by Jonathan Cape, London 1983. Toning to pages. No marks or inscriptions. DJ has minimal wear

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The Witches By Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake.Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1983, First Edition, first printing.Good hardback with jacket. Binding firm, some bumping, rubbing and minor marks to boards, no inscriptions, pages tanned with some foxing. Jacket is not price-clipped, it is foxed and has a little edge-wear with minor creasing.All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand.ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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.

Jonathan Caoe, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition hardback in Very Good condition with a like unclipped jacket. Turquoise cloth boards, barely bumped, 2018 pages, inside front cover and fep have been lightly coloured by a previous owner with an inscription to the latter partly blacked out, otherwise a clean copy in a tight and square binding. Jacket has light shelf wear to the edges with a little creasing to the head of the spine. A very presentable first edition of a modern classic. Free registered postage worldwide.

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.

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. Signed by Quentin Blake on a small cut card loosely inserted.

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