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Price: US$836.14 + shipping
Description: A first edition, softcover published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1984. A fine copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front inside cover 'To Douglas/Love/Roald/'. A lovely copy with a strong association to Dahl himself. Douglas Highton attended St Peter's Prep School in Weston-super-Mare with Roald Dahl. As a friend, Douglas supported Roald during an incident at school, which Roald would never forget and later recounted in his autobiographical book 'Boy'. Douglas also appears anecdotally in the short story 'Lucky Break', and as a character in the short story 'The Swan'. The two stayed in touch over the years and Douglas would visit Roald at home in Great Missenden where Roald kindly signed many books for Douglas' grandchildren, Andrew and Rebecca
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Boy, Limited Edition, SIGNED. , 1984.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Boy by Roald Dahl. First American edition, signed limited edition. 1 of 200 numbered copies. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Signed by Dahl. Condition: Fine. Unread. Slipcase with some white markings.
Seller: JayLin Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. Boy. Tales of Childhood.. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984, 1984.
Price: US$3794.79 + shipping
Description: First US edition, signed limited issue, number 197 of 200 copies, signed by the author. In his autobiographical collection of stories from childhood, Dahl includes his fondness for confectionery, his Norwegian ancestry, and his loathing for most schoolteachers. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with pictorial design in blind, pictorial endpapers. No jacket as issued. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout the text. Minor wear to slipcase with minor cracking to one joint: a fine copy in a near-fine slipcase.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom