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Dahl, Roald. Sometime Never. London: Collins, 1949.
Price: US$121.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First U.K. Edition, hardcover. 255 pages. Very good minus, hint of sunning or fading on spine, some light wear, owner info on front endpaper, overall a solid copy; no dust jacket.
Seller: Silicon Valley Fine Books, Sunnyvale, CA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Sometime Never. Collins, London, 1949.
Price: US$231.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. original mauve cloth gilt (rubbed & bumped, wear cloth at extremities and spine, a few slight marks to outer leaves, small nick to FFE, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper). pp. 256 (last blank). A good reading copy of the UK first edition. The author's first novel for adults.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
DAHL, Roald.. Sometime Never.. London: Collins, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression. The title was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Dahl would later suppress the novel. Jeremy Treglown notes that "Dahl may. have had Tolkien in mind in writing the story. there are echoes too of Lewis Carroll's mixture of the irrational and the commonsensical. But these elements are combined with the realism of his tougher war stories". Dahl's biographer also suggests that the Leader of the Gremlins in the novel "is a prototype of Mr Willy Wonka" (Treglown, p. 82). Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl, 1994. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Extremities a little bumped, crease to front free endpaper, minor foxing to endpapers; unclipped jacket worn with loss to head and foot of spine, closed tear to rear panel, spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Sometime Never. Collins, London, 1949.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dahl's 3rd book and first adult novel. The first British version. Mauve coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top right front corner bumped. Bottom edge uncut. Age toned but clean and tight. Owner's name to ffep. Dustjacket not price clipped (8sh. 6d. net). Some shelf wear. Spine faded.
Seller: Bounteous, Buckingham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Sometime Never (1st Ed.). Collins, 1949.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Little wear to boards and a solid binding. Content is clean with a few creases to page fore edges and spotting to endpapers and page ends. DJ with surface tone spotting (front & rear)- a few small tears and loss to upper spine.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. SOMETIME NEVER: A Fable for Supermen. Collins, London, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition of Dahl's first adult novel, a gruesome apocalyptic fantasy on the emergence of Gremlins in the wake of humanity's expected self-annihilation via chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare. 7.5'' x 5''. Original fuschia cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) dust jacket by Stephen Russ. 255, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, minor foxing to endpapers and jacket. Sun and light chipping to jacket spine. Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. Sometime Never.. London: Collins, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The book was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Jeremy Treglown notes that "Dahl may. have had Tolkien in mind in writing the story. there are echoes too of Lewis Carroll's mixture of the irrational and the commonsensical. But these elements are combined with the realism of his tougher war stories". Treglown also suggests that the Leader of the Gremlins in the novel "is a prototype of Mr Willy Wonka". Treglown, Roald Dahl, 1994, p. 82. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A crisp copy, spine slightly bumped, minor crease to spine, some foxing; extremities of jacket slightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, some foxing, unclipped: a very good copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom