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Publisher: Scholastic Date of Publication: 1996 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the OVERSIZED stated Scholastic First Edition from September 1996.Other than cover creasing, the book is in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight as a drumAcceptable

Scholastic, 1988. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. New. Blake, Quentin. White and blue cover Stored new Photos of book emailed upon request RARE

Complete eight-volume softcover set with slipcase. Books are generally in Near Fine condition with some wear to top and bottom of book spines. Slipcase is in Very Good condition with wrinkle/crease on top; slipcase also states "SPECIAL BONUS Willy Wonka Bookmark Included!" but bookmark is NOT included.Penguin USA First edition, Seventh Printings as indicated by number line of "7 8 9 10" listed on copyright pages. Books include:

Matilda (crease and wrinkle to first interior page);
The BFG;
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory;
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator;
The Twits;
George's Marvelous Medicine;
James and the Giant Peach; and
Fantastic Mr. Fox

A terrific collection of Dahl's most popular books for children and young adults. All books are softcover, therefore unable to be protected by archival Mylar cover.

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Very good condition. Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. Ink markings top of FFEP; former bookplate ghosting/residue to same. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of Roald Dahl's award-winning children's novel, Matilda, the basis for the 1996 feature film of the same name, directed by Danny DeVito. This copy is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Viking Kestrel in 1988 and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.
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" 'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams
'So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and… Read More

(New York): Viking Kestrel, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Fine in fine dust jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Viking. VG+. 1988. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.0 inches. 240 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

NEW YORK NY: VIKING KESTREL. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1988. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. ILLUSTRATIONS BY QUENTIN BLAKE . BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

(New York): Viking Kestrel, 1988. Fine in fine jacket.. Lovely first US edition of Dahl's novel, still beloved by contemporary children and nostalgic adults alike. A model for child prodigies, a wistful dream for harried schoolteachers, a perfect librarian's pet and the avenging angel of the elementary grades - Matilda Wormwood is an icon. Like all of Dahl's books, MATILDA pops at the seams with fury and spite, and like his best books, it is furious and spiteful about the right things: hateful parents, abuse of authority, all the petty cruelties and humiliations of childhood. It is an explicitly pro-book-reading text, and what it is for goes hand in hand with what it is against: repression, injustice, and television, television, television. Despite all that rage, on the page and essentially inseparable from the page, the inscrutable operations of Nemesis posthumously rewarded the famously adaptation-hating author with not one but two highly successful adaptations of his last great work for those who… Read More

London: Cape, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the true first edition with the words First Published 1988 printed on the copyright page with no indication of later printings. In first issue dust jacket. Basis for the popular film and Broadway show.

New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Advance reading copy of the first American edition and uncommon in this format. Bound in publisher's original yellow wraps printed in black. Near Fine with light soiling, light wear and light toning to wraps, several stray ink marks to the textblock edge. Contents toned. The beloved young adult novel that inspired a film adaptation in 1996, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First Edition. Unbound. Near Fine. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on Contents page all numbered 000. Near Fine with light toning and a bit of wear. A scarce format of the of the Dahl's best-known works.

DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape [1988]. 8vo, 240pp. Red cloth with spine stamped in gold foil. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Spine ends a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight crease and slightest soiling at flap folds). With bookplates signed by the author, Roald Dahl, and the artist, Quentin Blake, laid in.
First edition. Dahl's beloved tale of Matilda Wormwood, the precocious and magical child who uses her powers to free herself from her distracted parents and the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull. The basis for the 1996 feature film starring Mara Wilson and Danny DeVito, as well as the 2010 West End and 2013 Broadway musicals, which was made into the 2022 film starring Emma Thompson.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals (adults) squirm with displeasure He is undeniably special" (Connolly, 104). Basis for the 1996 Danny DeVito directed film, starring Mara Wilson, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris.