- 28
Dahl, Roald
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Sold
2,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Dahl, Roald
- The Gremlins. New York: Random House, 1943
- paper
folio (280 x 210mm.), FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one double-page and 12 full-page coloured illustrations and other illustrations in the text by Walt Disney studios, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, DUST-JACKET, ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper, corners bumped, dust-jacket spine slightly faded, dust-jacket spine slightly frayed at head and foot
Catalogue Note
A remarkable copy of Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl's first book in an unrestored dust-jacket.
The Walt Disney film was abandoned amid concerns over the origin of the term "Gremlin". The OED notes the word as R.A.F. slang and cites a 1941 appearance within Charles Graves' The Thin Blue Line.
The Walt Disney film was abandoned amid concerns over the origin of the term "Gremlin". The OED notes the word as R.A.F. slang and cites a 1941 appearance within Charles Graves' The Thin Blue Line.