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Roald Dahl. The Witches. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$1098.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sky blue boards with blue cloth to the spine and yellow and black titles. Internally it is clean and tight with just two small marks on the Half Title page. It is signed by the illustrator Quentin Blake, with no inscription, to the Title page. The dusjacket has slight edge wear and some small closed tears. It is not price clipped ($10.95) and the spine has not faded.
Seller: Bounteous, Buckingham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Dahl, Roald. The Witches [Limited Signed Edition]. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake at limitation page: "This edition of The Wtiches, signed by the author and the illustrato, is limited to three hundred copies, of which this is copy number '177'. 'Roald Dahl,' 'Quentin Blake.'" Stated First American Edition, 1983, at copyright. Brilliant blue cloth boards, stylized red metallic spine titles, slight shelf wear. Red metallic vignette of mouse about to feast on beans. Pages very good; no writing. Last couple with slight 1/2" blue bleed from bottom; also fairly faint bleed near gutter of lower exterior text block. Fine matte blue endpapers at front and back. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautiful original yellow slipcase, slight shelf wear; light blue bleed to interior. Dedication page To Liccy. Sharp near fine limited edition. The Witches was the 1983 winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Books. Left an orphan at age 7, the hero of this story is sent to live with his Norwegian grandmother. After mistakenly wandering into the annual convention of the Witches of England, the boy overhears their horrible plot to turn all the children of England into mice. Now he and his grandmother, an expert in all things witchy, must stop the witches from carrying out their dastardly deed. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Quetin Blake; an oftentime match arranged in heaven with Dahl. Printed in the United States of America. 202 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Number 24 of a limited 300 copies signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Bound in original blue cloth boards stamped in metallic red. Near Fine or better with lightly bumped corner in a Near Fine original yellow slipcase with light soiling, small area of abrasion near center of opening on one panel and bumped corner. A very lovely copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. The Witches.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, NY:, 1983.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Limited edition: this copy is number 204 of 300 copies. SIGNED by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. Fine in a fine slipcase. ; 202 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Number 174 of a limited 300 copies signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Bound in original blue cloth boards stamped in metallic red. Fine in a Near Fine lightly soiled slipcase. A fantastic copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. The Witches.. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$3876.52 + shipping
Description: First US edition, signed limited issue, number 179 of 300 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. The Witches was the second of only two Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake signed limited editions published exclusively in the US. Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, spine lettered in red, front cover with pictorial design in red, blue endpapers. No jacket as issued. In the publisher's slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Minor finger-soiling to slipcase: a fine copy in a near-fine slipcase.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom