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Sky blue boards with blue cloth to the spine and yellow and black titles. Internally it is clean and tight with just two small marks on the Half Title page. It is signed by the illustrator Quentin Blake, with no inscription, to the Title page. The dusjacket has slight edge wear and some small closed tears. It is not price clipped ($10.95) and the spine has not faded.

Jonathan Cape, 1983. 2nd print First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. 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. 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, 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.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Limited First American Edition of this now famous Roald Dahl classic. This is copy #31 of a limited run of 300 copies. This copy signed by both author Roald Dahl and longtime collaborator Quentin Blake. Housed in original bright yellow slipcase, which has some wear and mild staining on back side. The book is in very good shape and carries a personal gift inscription on the FFEP from 1987 stating 'To Grant with love Mom'. Signed in felt marker by Dahl and Blake on limited edition page.

Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake at limitation page: "This edition of The Wtiches, signed by the author and the illustrato, is limited to three hundred copies, of which this is copy number '177'. 'Roald Dahl,' 'Quentin Blake.'" Stated First American Edition, 1983, at copyright. Brilliant blue cloth boards, stylized red metallic spine titles, slight shelf wear. Red metallic vignette of mouse about to feast on beans. Pages very good; no writing. Last couple with slight 1/2" blue bleed from bottom; also fairly faint bleed near gutter of lower exterior text block. Fine matte blue endpapers at front and back. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautiful original yellow slipcase, slight shelf wear; light blue bleed to interior. Dedication page To Liccy. Sharp near fine limited edition. The Witches was the 1983 winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Books. Left an orphan at age 7, the hero of this story is sent to live with his Norwegian grandmother. After mistakenly wandering into the annual convention of the Witches of England, the boy overhears their horrible plot to turn all the children of England into mice. Now he and his grandmother, an expert in all things witchy, must stop the witches from carrying out their dastardly deed. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Quetin Blake; an oftentime match arranged in heaven with Dahl. Printed in the United States of America. 202 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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.

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).