Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
DAHL, Roald.. The BFG.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, NY:, 1982.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Limited edition: this copy is number 94 of 300 copies. SIGNED by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. Fine in a fine slipcase. ; 220 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald; Blake, Quentin [Illustrations]. The BFG. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1982.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Deluxe limited first American edition, number 20 of 300 copies, signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt, housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the slipcase with a corresponding bump to the top corner of the covers of the book itself, else Fine.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. The BFG. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1982.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dahl, Roald. The BFG; pictures by Quentin Blake. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. STATED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; "This edition of The BFG, signed by the author and the illustrator, is limited to three hundred copies, of which this is copy number 271." -- limitation page. 8vo - 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Red cloth covered boards with decoration stamped in gilt to front cover and titles stamped in gilt to spine for what is an exceptionally nice copy of the book. Original publisher's blue-gray cloth covered board slipcase is without a flaw. Gray marbled endpapers. 219 pp. A fantasy story about a young girl named Sophie who is whisked away from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant) who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children; together they concoct a plan to save the world from nine man-gobbling giants; black, gray and white illustrations by Quentin Blake throughout. The condition of both the book and the slipcase is FINE. SCARCE in this American limited edition, of which there was no corresponding English edition.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. THE BFG. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1982.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and illustrator. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. Ably illustrated by Quentin Blake, Dahl's frequent collaborator, whose frenetic gestural drawings quiver with life and indelibly define the characters. After CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, one of Dahl's best and most beloved titles. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market. 9'' x 5.75''. Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles. In original blue-grey slipcase. x, 222 pages. Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page. Clean, sharp, and bright throughout.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.