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Dahl,Roald. Two Fables. Viking, London, 1986.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy belonging to science fiction writer and critic John Clute and signed by him on the front free endpaper
Seller: Always Superior Books, marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$735.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: States "First Published 1986 . . . in honor of Roald Dahl's seventieth birthday." Warmly inscribed "To Carel" in a sprawling hand and signed "Roald Dahl" in blue ink to the otherwise blank FFE. Not price clipped; the original price of "L5.95 net" still intact to jacket front flap. A slim 64-page hardcover octavo, reduced from $1,015
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Roald Dahl SIGNED. Two Fables. Viking, UK, 1986.
Price: US$743.10 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1986. Limited edition of 300 books this being number 289. Inscribed to limitation page by the author. Book is fine and very bright. Never issued with a wrapper. Lovely illustrations. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15857
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
DAHL, Roald (1916-1990), [DEAN, Graham, illustrator]. Two Fables. Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$840.02 + shipping
Description: [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to spine, black cloth over boards, gilt titles to upper, and black endpapers. Internally crisp and clean, with some light wear to covers. Near fine. Two adult stories published as a tribute to Roald Dahl on his 70th Birthday: 'The Princess and the Poacher', and 'Princess Mammalia'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl. Two Fables. Viking January 1986, 1986.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 225 of the deluxe edition limited to 300 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ROALD DAHL. Bound in red leather over black boards with gilt titles on spine and front cover. Illustrations in color (frontispiece) and black&white. Faint shelf wear; overall, near fine condition.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Dahl, Roald. Two Fables.. Viking, Middlesex, 1986.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of Dahl's short fable collection. Octavo, original half leather with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Graham Dean. One of a limited edition of 300 books signed by Dahl and published by Viking in honor of Dahl's seventieth birthday, this is number 267. In near fine condition. As at 2019, British author Roald Dahl's works have been translated into 63 languages and have sold more than 200 million books worldwide. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Two Fables contains the short tales "Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated at copyright: "First Published 1986". First printing. Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl on custom pictorial bookplate at front endpaper: "Roald Dahl". Unique bookplate appears to be of tiger in jungle foliage preparing to pounce; but, Dahl has signed this plate upside-down and a facial expression of an awestruck child can be seen when held this way. Black full-cloth boards, sharp gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages near fine, no writing. Features a smooth color frontispiece with full and partial page imagery. Illustrated by Graham Dean in a rather impressionist or abstract way throughout. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dynamic dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 5.95 GBP, protected in new clear sleeve. Designed by Bet Ayer, jacket appears to imply with deep red and black areas torn in two representing love and death. Near fine rarity. From front flap: Roald Dahl is recognized as a master in two rather distinct fields: the short story and the children's book. His writing career began with short stories, brought together in such classic collections as Kiss, Kiss and Switch Bitch, but in recent years he has been consolidating his reputation as the foremost living writer for children with books like The Twits, The BFG and The Witches. Now, in the year of Dahl's seventieth birthday, he has written two quite startlingly original stories that, whilst owing something to the clarity and verve of his writing for children, are firmly intended for adults. These fables are modern assertions about the way people behave. Both are concerned with uses and misuses of power, whether exercised politically or sexually. And, most important of all, both are as characteristically surprising and amusing as his best. Two Fables was published as a tribute by Viking in honour of Roald Dahl's seventieth birthday, 13 September, 1986. The Princess and the Pauper concerns a physically abhorent young man with a super unnatural beastly strength who rescues a beautiful princess from a charging boar. He is then granted right by the king to have any woman in the kingdom he so desires. The wise king foresees the inevitable conclusion and true love's path. The second tale, Princess Mammalia, is quite sinister involving another princess and king. This princess is also beautiful but incredibly vain, and wields her appearance to her own ends. When she is given the chance of taking over the throne by poisoning her father, she takes the advice of a mysterious beggar who gives her the poison. But who really is this mysterious beggar? The legendary Roald Dahl combines these two tales with all the verve and wicked sense of humour he usually exhibits. Two Fables is no exception and great fun from a master storyteller. Dahl's parents were Norwegian, but he was born in Glamorgan, one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales, in 1916 and educated at Repton School. On the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the RAF in Naibrobi and later saw service as a fighter pilot in Greece and Syria. In 1942 he went to Washington as Assistant Air Attache and it was here he started to write short stories. Graham Dean, an equally provocative element of this book, is one of Britain's most inventive and popular artists and has been exhibting paintings internationally for a dozen years. His works are now in countless private collections, and several public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. Printed in Great Britain. 64 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
DAHL, Roald.. Two Fables. With Illustrations by Graham Dean.. Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$1615.43 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Colin, Love Roald". The recipient was Colin Ross-Munro. Colin's wife, Jan, was an old friend of Dahl's second wife, Liccy. Two Fables was published in honour of Dahl's 70th birthday. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Small bump to spine, small mark to foot of rear endpapers, an excellent copy in the jacket with slight rubbing to extremities, small crease to front panel near spine, small mark to foot of rear panel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom