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Dahl, Roald. My Uncle Oswald', UK signed first edition. Michael Joseph, 1979.
Price: US$839.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Roald Dahl (1979) My Uncle Oswald, UK first edition, first printing, published by Michael Joseph. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Neil with Love | Roald Dahl | 3 Oct 1983. Condition: a near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Internally clean without any previous owners scribbles. No bookplates, no stamps of any sorts. Light pushes to spine tips. Boards square and free of bumps. The dust jacket is colour faded on the spine and price clipped with a few ageing spots to the flaps. A scarce inscribed first edition of the beloved children books writer. My Uncle Oswald is actually a humorous adult novel. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. My Uncle Oswald. Michael Joseph, 1979.
Price: US$878.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publishers blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Complete in original unclipped jacket. Signed by author to title page in thick black pen 'Love Roald Dahl'. A very good, bright and clean copy with slight fading to jacket spine.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. My Uncle Oswald (Signed & Inscribed by Author). Michael Joseph, London, 1979.
Price: US$1088.84 + shipping
Description: Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. The Dustjacket is NOT price clipped. Inscribed and signed by author 'Ian Love Roald Dahl 6/10/85'. 221 pages. One of Dahl's adult novels. The further salacious adventures of Uncle Oswald, who had previously appeared in two short stories. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
DAHL, Roald. My Uncle Oswald - SIGNED by the Author. London: Michael Joseph, 1979.
Price: US$1098.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 221. Bound in blue cloth covered hand boards and in the original un-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed to the ffep: "To Lam Love Roald Dahl". The book has a bump to the bottom corner of the upper board, page block clean and bright, jacket is bright and unfaded. Grades Near Fine in a Fine jacket.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald.. My Uncle Oswald.. London: Michael Joseph, 1979, 1979.
Price: US$1615.22 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jan & Colin, Love Roald 1979". The recipients were Jan and Colin Ross-Munro. Jan, an art historian who regularly lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum, was a close friend of Dahl's second wife, Liccy. Octavo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered gilt. With dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, small bump to lower fore tip of front board, an excellent copy in the jacket with slight creasing to extremities, small nick to foot of front flap.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald.. My Uncle Oswald.. London: Michael Joseph, 1979, 1979.
Price: US$1938.26 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his half-sister and brother-in-law on the front free endpaper, "Ellen & Ashley Love Roald 1979". Ellen Marguerite Dahl (1903-1988) was the first of two children born to Harald Dahl and Marie Beaurin-Gresser. Her mother died in 1907 and her father remarried in 1911. Working as a medical laboratory technician she married Arnold Ashley Miles (1904-1988) in 1930. Later Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and Professor of Experimental Pathology in the University of London, Ashley Miles received a knighthood in 1966. The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in "The Visitor" and "Bitch", two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (both of which were published in Switch Bitch). Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped, minimal leaning to spine and small marks to edges, else a near-fine copy, internally clean and bright. Top edge of tanned dust jacket slightly creased, with small closed tear to joint of rear flap, overall near-fine dust jacket which is unclipped.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom