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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.

Cape, 1983. 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.

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.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Second printing. 8vo, 206, [2]pp. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Inscribed by Dahl to the former owner with love on the ffep. A near fine copy in publisher's turquoise paper over boards with silver spine lettering. Page block a bit toned, some offset from Dahl's signing marker to half title, else clean. Jacket with slight wear at upper corner. A sharp copy. Inscribed copy of Dahl's classic tale of real witches, published by Cape, London.

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 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).