Red boards with gilt lettering to spine and in pictorial dustwrapper.
8vo, 23.5cm
Black and white line illustrations by Quentin Blake
240pp
London - UK
1988
Jonathan Cape
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(H)18cm x (W)12cm x (D/L)3cm
Description:
First edition of Dahl's classic story about Matilda, the child genius which has been successfully adapted for stage and screen. ('Even before she is five years old, Matilda has read Dickens, and Hemingway, Kipling and Steinbeck.....')
