GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original light blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Quentin Blake illustrated dustwrapper. Richly illustrated by Quentin Blake in black and white throughout. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, with a little rubbing and bumping to the extremities, the cloth with is a touch of toning at the extreme top and bottom edges, are otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with a few isolated foxing spots and a little transference from the ink of the author's signature to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which again has a faint transference of the ink from the author's signature on the front flap, a nick to the top right corner of the upper panel and a closed tear to the edge of the rear flap (secured with tape to the underside). The dustwrapper is bright and without fading. Not price-clipped (£3.95 net to the lower front flap).

Signed by Roald Dahl in black ink on the front endpaper. Dahl's classic children's tale of a young boy's fantastical revenge against his bullying grandmother. Sir Quentin Blake's artistic contributions to Dahl's most popular children's novels have become synonymous with the stories themselves, with his illustrations for 'George' receiving particular praise for skillfully softening the author's harsher story elements, as pointed out thus by Dahl biographer Jeremy Treglown "Blake lightens things by visually reminding the reader both how small George is and, as he wanders around the house, looking for ingredients for his medicine, how lonely and innocent. His actions come across as prompted more by curiosity than cruelty". (Roald Dahl: A Biography, p 229).