Roald Dahl – Matilda – First UK Edition 1988
£450.00
First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1988. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper, as illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake, has one mild rubbing at the corners and one small crease to the rear panel. It has not been price clipped, showing the £8.50 net price. The boards are immaculate in the publishers red cloth. The text blocks are bright and white throughout and the internals free from previous owners ink. Overall, this is a fine copy.
In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time best children’s novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly. Time magazine named Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a Royal Mail commemorative postage stamp.
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First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1988. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper, as illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake, has one mild rubbing at the corners and one small crease to the rear panel. It has not been price clipped, showing the £8.50 net price. The boards are immaculate in the publishers red cloth. The text blocks are bright and white throughout and the internals free from previous owners ink. Overall, this is a fine copy.
In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time best children’s novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly. Time magazine named Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a Royal Mail commemorative postage stamp.
