Roald Dahl. George's Marvellous Medicine - SIGNED BY QUENTIN BLAKE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.

Price: US$1607.85 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: HARDBACK - A fine book, bound in the publishers blue cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. Internally, the pages are very clean indeed, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. Boldly signed by the books illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake to the half title page. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition with no loss or tears, but with light fading to the spine. The publisher's printed price of £3.95net is present to the front panel. A lovely copy.

Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom

Dahl, Roald. George's Marvellous [Marvelous] Medicine. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First British edition, first printing. Signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to binding, slight sunning to edges of boards and slight wear to spine ends, foxing to textblock edge. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine and slight edge wear, slight offsetting to front flap and front pastedown from the author's signature.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

DAHL, Roald.. George's Marvellous Medicine.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981, 1981.

Price: US$5145.11 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, signed and dated "Roald Dahl 6 March, 1982" on the front free endpaper in purple. Jeremy Treglown found that the book "owes something to a circus act or a Punch and Judy show", and notes that Quentin Blake "lightens things by visually reminding the reader both how small George is, and. how lonely and innocent". A contemporary review noted that, "For some time now Roald Dahl has been the most popular living novelist that we have for children, despite, or sometimes possibly because of, lapses in taste. George's Marvellous Medicine is a good example of this ability he has to entertain the young often at the cost of offending many of the other sort". Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 1981, p. 839; Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl, a biography, 1994, p. 229. Octavo. Original light blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A copy with notably bright contents. Minor damp staining to head of rear cover and free endpapers, foxing to top edge; some damp staining and light foxing to jacket, spine slightly sunned, occasional minor loss to extremities, unclipped: a very good copy in a very good jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom