Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Dahl,Roald. Two Fables: The Princess And the Poacher; Princess Mammalia. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$1.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Dahl,Roald. Two Fables: The Princess And the Poacher; Princess Mammalia. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$1.98 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. Two fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$4.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
Dahl,Roald. Two Fables: The Princess And the Poacher; Princess Mammalia. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$4.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday),
Seller: HR1 Books, Hereford, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables. Viking, Middlesex, England, 1986.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine, Mild wear/VG, Edgewear, two large tears to rear cover, some indentations, spine fading. Two short stories for adults, illustrated by Graham Dean. 64 pages, with colour frontispiece. Photo on request.
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
DAHL, ROALD. Two Fables. Viking 1986, 1986.
Price: US$13.76 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Dahl, Roald. Two fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$18.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald. Two Fables. London: Viking, 1986.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Slim volume, pp 64. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. In original dust jacket which is unclipped (£5.95 net). With illustrations by Graham Dean, this book was published by Viking as a tribute to Dahl on his 70th birthday. The book has some mild spotting to the frontispiece illustration, otherwise clean internally (it would be graded Fine other than for the spotting noted above). In a Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Two Fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Fables was published in honour of Roald Dahls seventieth birthday, 13 September 1986. Illustrations by Graham Dean. Contains two stories for adults: The Princess and the Poacher and Princess Mammalia. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine, price-clipped dustjacket. Condition: Very good. A little bumping to edgse of dj. Inner flap, ffep and frontispiece with corner creases. Inscription to ffep. Pages bright and clean. Size: 9 x 6 inches / 23 x 15 cm. 64 pages. Weight: 245g
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables. Viking, London, 1986.
Price: US$20.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG+. 8vo. original black boards gilt (creasing to boards, faint tape marks to endpapers, else internally clean) in dustwrapper priced £5.95 (a trifle rubbed & creased). pp. 64, with illustrations. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables. Viking, London, 1986.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in a Fine price clipped Dust Wrapper, loosely inserted is the newspaper notice of Dahl's death in 1990
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables : First printing. Viking, Harmondsworth, United Kingdom, 1986.
Price: US$25.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing with original clipped jacket. Illustrations by Graham Dean. Jacket has faults - namely minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small crease/rub to edges, a few small marks, rubbing, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, crease to back inner flap and is in only good condition. Boards are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are slightly tanned. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
DAHL, ROALD.. TWO FABLES.. London Viking, 1986.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION 1986, 8vo, 225 x 135 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, black boards gilt, 64 pages. Coloured frontispiece and 21 black and white illustrations, 2 double page by Graham Dean illustrating 2 new stories for adults. Tiniest bump to tail of spine, no inscriptions, near Fine in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, just very slightly rubbed at head of spine, top of folds and along top edge of lower panel (see image). Published in honour of Dahl's 70th birthday. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald, Illustrated by Dean, Graham. Two Fables. Viking, London, 1986.
Price: US$28.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published in honour of Roald dahl's 70th birthday. Slim black boards with gold titles to spine. The two short stories are 'The princess and the Poacher' and "princess Mammalia'. Slight stain to edge of frontispiece. There is a small (half a postage stamp) piece of paper stuck to rear board where the dj must have attached at some stage. Inscription on ffep. Not price clipped. Dahl is a double winner of the Children's Book Award and Whitbred Children's Book Award.
Seller: Bounteous, Buckingham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl; Illustrator-G. Dean. Two Fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$29.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Two fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine First Edition, first impression in a Fine, unclipped DJ
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Dahl Roald. Two Fables. Viking London, 1986.
Price: US$41.05 + shipping
Description: 8vo(22.6x14) HB 1st edition 61pp illus. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine-fine. Unclipped illus dust jacket-fine.Internally fine presents as new. (250g)
Seller: Bentfinger Book Services, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Two Fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good clean copy in original clipped jacket. 1st ed.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Dahl,Roald. Two Fables. Viking, London, 1986.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy belonging to science fiction writer and critic John Clute and signed by him on the front free endpaper
Seller: Always Superior Books, marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Roald Dahl. Two Fables. Viking, 1986.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good clean copy in original jacket. 1st ed.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald.. Two Fables.. Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Published to mark Dahl's 70th birthday, the volume comprises two short stories, "Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia", which had never been published before and were intended for an adult readership. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, and black and white illustrations in the text by Graham Dean. Extremities a little bumped, front pastedown lifting slightly; extremities of jacket slightly rubbed, not price-clipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. TWO FABLES. Viking, New York, 1986.
Price: US$134.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner bookplate on FEP. Light rubbing at top/bottom panel edges of front/rear panels. Illustrations by Graham Dean.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables. Viking (Penguin Books Ltd) 1986, Middlesex, England, 1986.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64 pp., Red calf spine with black cloth boards. Minor marks to the boards. Slight spotting to the fore-edge but internally clean and bright and illustrated in blck & white throughout by Graham Dean. Unsigned or numbered, out of series copy of the Limited edition published in honour of Dahl's 70th Birthday. 0670815314 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl SIGNED. Two Fables. Viking, UK, 1986.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1986. Limited edition of 300 books this being number 289. Inscribed to limitation page by the author. Book is fine and very bright. Never issued with a wrapper. Lovely illustrations. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15857
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald (1916-1990), [DEAN, Graham, illustrator]. Two Fables. Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to spine, black cloth over boards, gilt titles to upper, and black endpapers. Internally crisp and clean, with some light wear to covers. Near fine. Two adult stories published as a tribute to Roald Dahl on his 70th Birthday: 'The Princess and the Poacher', and 'Princess Mammalia'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Two Fables. Viking January 1986, 1986.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 225 of the deluxe edition limited to 300 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ROALD DAHL. Bound in red leather over black boards with gilt titles on spine and front cover. Illustrations in color (frontispiece) and black&white. Faint shelf wear; overall, near fine condition.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$865.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: States "First Published 1986 . . . in honor of Roald Dahl's seventieth birthday." Warmly inscribed "To Carel" in a sprawling hand and signed "Roald Dahl" in blue ink to the otherwise blank FFE. Not price clipped; the original price of "L5.95 net" still intact to jacket front flap. A slim 64-page hardcover octavo, reduced from $1,015
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables.. Viking, Middlesex, 1986.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of Dahl's short fable collection. Octavo, original half leather with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Graham Dean. One of a limited edition of 300 books signed by Dahl and published by Viking in honor of Dahl's seventieth birthday, this is number 267. In near fine condition. As at 2019, British author Roald Dahl's works have been translated into 63 languages and have sold more than 200 million books worldwide. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Two Fables contains the short tales "Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated at copyright: "First Published 1986". First printing. Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl on custom pictorial bookplate at front endpaper: "Roald Dahl". Unique bookplate appears to be of tiger in jungle foliage preparing to pounce; but, Dahl has signed this plate upside-down and a facial expression of an awestruck child can be seen when held this way. Black full-cloth boards, sharp gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages near fine, no writing. Features a smooth color frontispiece with full and partial page imagery. Illustrated by Graham Dean in a rather impressionist or abstract way throughout. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dynamic dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 5.95 GBP, protected in new clear sleeve. Designed by Bet Ayer, jacket appears to imply with deep red and black areas torn in two representing love and death. Near fine rarity. From front flap: Roald Dahl is recognized as a master in two rather distinct fields: the short story and the children's book. His writing career began with short stories, brought together in such classic collections as Kiss, Kiss and Switch Bitch, but in recent years he has been consolidating his reputation as the foremost living writer for children with books like The Twits, The BFG and The Witches. Now, in the year of Dahl's seventieth birthday, he has written two quite startlingly original stories that, whilst owing something to the clarity and verve of his writing for children, are firmly intended for adults. These fables are modern assertions about the way people behave. Both are concerned with uses and misuses of power, whether exercised politically or sexually. And, most important of all, both are as characteristically surprising and amusing as his best. Two Fables was published as a tribute by Viking in honour of Roald Dahl's seventieth birthday, 13 September, 1986. The Princess and the Pauper concerns a physically abhorent young man with a super unnatural beastly strength who rescues a beautiful princess from a charging boar. He is then granted right by the king to have any woman in the kingdom he so desires. The wise king foresees the inevitable conclusion and true love's path. The second tale, Princess Mammalia, is quite sinister involving another princess and king. This princess is also beautiful but incredibly vain, and wields her appearance to her own ends. When she is given the chance of taking over the throne by poisoning her father, she takes the advice of a mysterious beggar who gives her the poison. But who really is this mysterious beggar? The legendary Roald Dahl combines these two tales with all the verve and wicked sense of humour he usually exhibits. Two Fables is no exception and great fun from a master storyteller. Dahl's parents were Norwegian, but he was born in Glamorgan, one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales, in 1916 and educated at Repton School. On the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the RAF in Naibrobi and later saw service as a fighter pilot in Greece and Syria. In 1942 he went to Washington as Assistant Air Attache and it was here he started to write short stories. Graham Dean, an equally provocative element of this book, is one of Britain's most inventive and popular artists and has been exhibting paintings internationally for a dozen years. His works are now in countless private collections, and several public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. Printed in Great Britain. 64 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. Two Fables. With Illustrations by Graham Dean.. Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Colin, Love Roald". The recipient was Colin Ross-Munro. Colin's wife, Jan, was an old friend of Dahl's second wife, Liccy. Two Fables was published in honour of Dahl's 70th birthday. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Small bump to spine, small mark to foot of rear endpapers, an excellent copy in the jacket with slight rubbing to extremities, small crease to front panel near spine, small mark to foot of rear panel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom