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Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake. The Witches. Jonathan Cape 27/10/1983, 1983.
Price: US$4.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake. The Witches. Jonathan Cape 27/10/1983, 1983.
Price: US$4.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$4.24 + shipping
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Seller: Brit Books, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. The Witches. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983.
Price: US$4.32 + shipping
Description: Ex-Library Copy. stains on pages and the side **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$8.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Used: Acceptable/Unclipped; Sloped spine. Wear present.Discolouration present.Fold creasing present.Foxing.Scruff marks present on the front cover and back cover.Scruff mark present at the sides of pages.Small mark present on a few pages. Tearing present.Stains present on the front and back cover, at the side of a few of the pages.Dent marks present on the front and back cover.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape / Random House, London, 1983.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, subsequent impression with number line '7 9 10 8'. A tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, some dints to back jacket and fold (dropped heavily?), not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean almost square and tight, overall a vg copy for its age. 208pp, illustrated. BEWARE! Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what? Roald Dahl's (1916-90), classic scary tale for children.
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing with original clipped jacket. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a few small (approx. 1cm) tears, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, a few small marks, pushing/bumping to corners, small loss to top surface to head of spine, the odd crease/rub to edges, a few small scratches, minor fading to spine and is in only good condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages have the odd small mark/minor foxing. Pages bit tanned. Large gift inscription and date in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$73.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean dark turquoise cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: dark yellowed, moderate foxings. Half-title page and refp with vertical dj shadowing. Clean contents. Illustrated. Binding is As New. 208p Dj: faint dusting of a little soiling and rubbings. Spine: mildly sunned; head & foot with thin wear and chips. Not price-clipped.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Near Fine- hardback "Complimentary Copy" review copy stamp along right hand edge of text block, in a Very Good+ chipped and lightly edgeworn price-clipped dust jacket. A clean, cosmetically worn copy.
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
ROALD DAHL. The Witches. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1983.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Clear plastic cover over DJ. DJ edges taped to pastedowns. NB: book has probably received mild water damage at some point, leaving moderate staining on the DJ. Residue of issuing form on front free endpaper. Damage to edges of pre-title pages, near central binding(no affect on text). Tanned pages. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions
Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS, THETFORD, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake.. The Witches (1983 First Edition). Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$88.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Witches By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake. Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1983, First Edition, first printing. Good hardback with jacket. Some bumping and minor marks to boards, abrasion to front cover, no inscriptions, and stains to end-papers, foxing to end-papers and page edges, pages tanned. Jacket is not price-clipped, it is foxed, rubbed and chipped with slight fading to spine.
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Dahl, Roald; Illustrated By Quentin Blake. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some light tanning which appears to be prevalent to this title. Light foxing to the closed page edges and very faint foxing to the prelims. The jacket is price clipped and has very minor shelf wear.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Description: A scarce uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short ghost stories, edited and compiled by the influential author Roald Dahl. A scarce uncorrected proof copy of this work. A collection of spooky ghost stories, edited by Roald Dahl. Containing 'W.S.' by L. P. Hartley, 'Harry' by Rosemary Timperley, 'The Corner Shop' by Cynthia Asquith, 'In the Tube' by E. F. Benson, 'Christmas Meeting' by Rosemary Timperley, 'Elias and the Draug' by Jonas Lie, 'Playmates' by A. M. Burrage, 'Ringing the Changes' by Robert Aickman, 'The Telephone' by Mary Treadgold, 'The Ghost of a Hand' by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 'The Sweeper' by A. M. Burrage, 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton, 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton', and 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford. Roald Dahl is a popular English author, who is best known for his influential children's novels, including 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Matilda', 'The Witches', and 'James and the Giant Peach'. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, smart. A few very light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald; Illustrated By Quentin Blake. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some light tanning which appears to be prevalent to this title. Light foxing to the closed page edges and light foxing to the prelims. The jacket is not price clipped at 6.50 net, has a hint of foxing.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Description: (London: Jonathan Cape 1983). First UK Edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake. Publisher's blue boards, titles to spine in gilt. With the Quentin Blake designed dustwrapper. Some foxing/browning to the top end fore-edges; base of spine bumped and bruised with little bit of surface loss. About VG. The dustwrapper (priced £6.50 net to the inside flap) is also about VG and is faded to the spine with a small chip at the bottom left hand corner of the spine with a tiny nick in the dustwrapper. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983. The basis for the 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film "Roald Dahl The Witches" co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, and Kristin Chenoweth. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. The Witches (First Printing). Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Very Good: tight and square binding in clean green cloth; light rubbing to the corners and pushing to the spine tips; bright gilt; tanning and foxing to the edge of the page block; the occasional isolated spot or minor mark internally, else crisp and clean pages; free from previous owner names or inscriptions. The unclipped dustwrapper (£6.50 net stated) is likewise Very Good: bright and attractive with light rubbing and wrinkling to the head of the spine and top corners; a small area of loss to the top-edge of the front panel; a little sunning to the spine; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. ROALD DAHL SPECIALISTS
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald.. The Witches.. London, Jonathan Cape 1983., 1983.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition (Uncorrected Proof Copy). Octavo-size paperback original, in red-orange wrappers, with black lettering. A spine crease and some light wear at corners and extremities, otherwise very good in an added archival jacket for this copy. Illustrated in b/w by Quentin Blake. A highly successful Dahl title (among many others, obviously), both as a book and as a film. A reasonably uncommon proof, with publishing details on the front cover: trimmed page size, pagination, provisional UK price of 6.50 pounds, and publication date, 27th October, 1983. Scan available on request.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 208 pages. First edition. Impression to front panel of jacket from when a former owner used the book as a support for note paper - only visible when the book is tilted at a certain angle under bright light. Jacket not price clipped; now in a removable archival sleeve. Former owner's signature to top of first leaf; else unmarked, with no foxing. 9.5 x 6.4 inches.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., aquamarine publisher's boards, lettered in gilt along the spine; in the unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Quentin Blake (£6.50 net); pp. [vi], 7-206, [ii]; illustrated throughout with line drawings by Quentin Blake; a near-fine copy of this classic children's work, the pages ever-so-slightly toned, with spine tips a touch pressed; jacket, aside from some minor creases and a couple of spots to the rear flap, also near-fine. First edition. The Witches, one of Dahl's best-selling books, tells the frightening story of a world in which Witches abound, occasionally gathering under the leadership of the Grand High Witch, who plots to turn all unsuspecting children into mice. Although now perceived to be one of his greats, the book received mixed reviews upon publication, but its popularity has remained and it has been adapted for film twice - once in 1990 and another in 2020, with Anne Hathaway in the lead role.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald; Illustrated By Quentin Blake. The Witches (Review Copy). Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$478.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is stamped ' Review copy not for sale. NZ Retail Price 14.95' on the fep. Note the 14.95 is in pen. Pre- first edition review copy. Some light pushing to the spine tips. Faint tanning to ep's. Light foxing to the prelims and closed page edges. The jacket has some very minor light shelf wear, is not price clipped at 6.50 net UK and has light internal foxing.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin (illustrator).. The Witches.. London Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$514.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake, paper stock beginning to brown as usual; publisher's blue boards, titles to spine gilt, small mark to the front free endpaper, Quentin Blake designed dust-jacket, lightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. A classic dark tale from a master of the genre, the macabre menace only slightly mitigated by the target audience being children. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, The Witches was also successfully dramatised on several occasions, most famously perhaps the 1990 film featuring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, which featured a differing ending from that in the book (much to the author's chagrin). Intriguingly, it has also found itself at one time or another banned for perceived misogyny, as Dahl states that only women can be witches: 'I do not wish to speak badly about women,' the author writes. 'Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no such thing as a male witch. On the other hand, a ghoul is always a male. both are dangerous. But neither of them is half as dangerous as a REAL WITCH'. Dahl's creation has also found itself taken off reading lists across schools in America for the possibility of turning children to witchcraft with its perceived satanic themes and the fear of desensitising young minds to violence.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Small octavo. Red wrappers printed in black. 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald. THE WITCHES. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed copy of Dahl's classic tale of real witches, published by Cape, London. 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
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. The Witches (signed). Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$1583.28 + shipping
Description: 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 photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 089030.
Seller: 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA, Cambridge, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. The Witches - SIGNED BY QUENTIN BLAKE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book that has been signed by the books illustrator, Quentin Blake to the title page. Slight tanning to the text block, else a fine book in a fine dust wrapper. No loss or tears, with the publisher's printed price of £6.50net present to the front flap. A most attractive example.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald.. The Witches. Illustrations by Quentin Blake.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$5475.12 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, the book was adapted into a stage play and a two-part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. Octavo (222 x 149 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, titles to spine and front board onlaid in pale blue morocco and blocked in black, pictorial onlay wrapped around front and back board after the original dust jacket, twin rule to turn-ins in black, plain blue endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a bright blue flat-back cloth box. With black and white illustrations. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. The Witches - A PROOF COPY - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$7407.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY - A very good or better book, bound by the publisher's in red paper covers. The paper covers are clean with no signs of fading or creasing to the corners. There are a couple of faint indentations to the boards, else a clean and fresh example. Inscribed by the author to the first page. The inscription reads CHRIS LOVE / ROALD DAHL / 6/10/85. The text blocks show signs of foxing, but the inner text is clean with no signs of foxing, but with a small mark present next to the author inscription. Free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout by Sir Quentin Blake. A scarce book, made more so inscribed by the author.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake. The Witches.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$8200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dahlâs Whitbread Award-winning childrenâs 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. âDahl 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 specialâ (Connolly, 104).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$13500.00 + shipping
Description: "DAHL, Roald. The Witches. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983). Octavo, original blue-green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $13,500.First edition, presentation copy, of Dahl's Whitbread Award-winning children's novel, with in-text illustrations by Quentin Blake, warmly inscribed in the year of publication across the entire front endpaper to a close friend of Dahl's son, Theo, and a frequent visitor to Dahl's writing hut during the writing of Boy: "To Justin with love, Roald Dahl. Oct. 28th 1983."Roald Dahl knows every bit as well as Bruno Bettelheim that children love the macabre, the terrifying, the mythic. In his latest book, The Witches, a 7-year-old orphan boy, cared for by his Norwegian grandmother, discovers the true nature of witches and then has the misfortune to be transformed into a mouse by the Grand High Witch of All the World It is a curious sort of tale but an honest one, which deals with matters of crucial importance to children: smallness, the existence of evil in the world, mourning, separation, death The Witches is finally a love story the story of a little boy who loves his grandmother so utterly (and she him) that they are looking forward to spending their last few years exterminating the witches of the world together" (Erica Jong, New York Times). "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). The recipient of this copy was a close friend of Theo Dahl, the author's third child and only son. The owner spent considerable time at the Dahl house in Great Missenden and even managed to secure an after-school job at Dahl and Son Antiques on the High Street, run by Theo and Roald Dahl's sister, Alf. He also frequently accompanied his stepfather, the Dahls' handyman, on jobs at the Dahl's home. During the construction of a bungalow on the property, the recipient found his way into Roald Dahl's writing hut, where he played on the floor and discussed boarding school. Dahl began writing Boy during this period. In a recent statement, the recipient recalled meeting Quentin Blake outside the hut as Dahl was completing Boy and said that Blake sketched him in ten minutes, using him as the model for the cover. This is one of five books Dahl specially inscribed to the recipient.A fine inscribed copy with an outstanding provenance."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.