Beautiful first edition, first issue copy of Roald Dahl's most famous work, with six-line colophon, that precedes the British edition by three years.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>Illustrations by Joseph Schindelman (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1964.</li><li>162 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s red cloth with illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A first edition, signed copy of Roald Dahl's short stories collection, Someone Like You.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (British).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1953.</li><li>359 pages.</li><li>Signed by Dahl on front free endpaper.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original tan and lavender cloth, presented in original unclipped dust jacket designed by Charles E. Skaggs.</li></ul>

Someone Like You

A deluxe limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first US edition</a> of this <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=roald+dahl&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dahl</a> classic, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by both the author and illustrator.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Quentin Blake (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus, Giroux,&nbsp;(1982). </li><li>x, 222 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles, in original blue-grey slipcase.</li></ul>

The BFG | First Edition, Signed by Both Author and Illustrator

First edition, in the first issue dust jacket, of the great chocolatier fantasy of desire fulfilled.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1964.</li><li>6 line colophon; [12], 162 pages.</li><li>Black and white illustrations throughout.</li><li>Bound in original blind-stamped red cloth boards with gilt-titled to spine, in original unclipped ($3.95) pictorial dust jacket, purple topstain, gold endpapers.</li></ul> Dahl's Dickensian tale of a good-hearted waif rescued from poverty by literature's most stylish factory owner, drawing powerfully on the author's remembered childhood miseries and later post-war deprivation. Charlie's wish for a Golden Ticket, more than the uncomplicated greed animating the book's less virtuous children, is an unfathomable longing for sweetness, for a taste of wonder in a grey and oppressive world. Meanwhile, Wonka's chaotic energy drives the story to its greatest heights. As the walled chocolate garden's grotesqueries reward a child-reader's basest narrative instincts, each unworthy child is punished according to his or her character and just desserts, in sequences as merciless as a medieval morality play. For these disquieting episodes, and for the sheer material lavishness of Charlie's ultimate reward, the novel was derided by Eleanor Cameron as "one of the most tasteless books ever written for children, no better than a television show"; Ursula Le Guin concurred, likening its effects to "a tiny psychological fugue, very like that provided by comic books." Children continue, lawlessly, to adore it.

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Witches by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Roald+Dahl&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roald Dahl</a>, accompanied by a limited edition of Dahl’s alternate ending chapter.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (British).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.</li><li>Signed to a bookplate on the front free endpaper by Dahl and without dedication.</li><li>In the unclipped dust wrapper.</li><li>Accompanied by one of a limited edition of 360 (this being 21) published by the Roald Dahl Story Company of Dahl’s manuscript for his alternate ending to the book, in a folder designed by Laura Coppolaro.</li></ul> The “alternate ending” for Roald Dahl’s The Witches exists in a special 360-copy edition of the book, containing a version where the hero stays a mouse and he and his grandmother become witch hunters. In this version, after the witches are defeated, he and his grandmother use the Grand High Witch’s machine to find and eliminate witches world-wide, accepting his short mouse life-span to continue the fight. This is a variation of the book’s original, darker ending, which differs from the happier conclusion of the 1990 movie adaptation.

The Witches | Signed First Edition, Accompanied by the Alternate Ending Limited Edition

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