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Published by Collins 1949. Hard Cover. First Edition. Condition: Good. Light edgewear and a few scuff marks. First endpaper missing. Clean copy. No Jacket. .

London: Collins, 1949 8vo. original mauve cloth gilt (rubbed & bumped, wear cloth at extremities and spine, a few slight marks to outer leaves, small nick to FFE, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper). pp. 256 (last blank). A good reading copy of the UK first edition. The author's first novel for adults.. First UK. Hard Cover. G+/No Jacket.

London: Collins,, 1949. The author's first novel which he later suppressed First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The book was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Jeremy Treglown notes that "Dahl may... have had Tolkien in mind in writing the story... there are echoes too of Lewis Carroll's mixture of the irrational and the commonsensical. But these elements are combined with the realism of his tougher war stories". Treglown also suggests that the Leader of the Gremlins in the novel "is a prototype of Mr Willy Wonka". Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A crisp copy, spine slightly bumped, minor crease to spine, some foxing; extremities of… Read More