The Roald Dahl Treasury. Dahl, Roald.

First edition, first impression. This anthology includes eight previously unpublished works: "Letter from America", "Letters from Abroad", "The Owl and the Pussy-cat", "Hickety, Pickety", "The Crocodile", "A Poem in Reply to Schoolchildren", "Roald Dahl Talking", and "As I Grow Old". It also prints extracts from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, and others. Quarto. Original red boards, spine lettered in yellow, cream endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrations by Quentin Blake, Patrick Benson, Raymond Briggs, Babette Cole, Ralph Steadman, and others. Spine ends rubbed; unclipped jacket gently sunned at spine and head of front panel, lightly rubbed with small abrasion to rear panel: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.