George’s Marvellous Medicine. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Cape, 1981. First Edition. Pp, 96. Light blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Small tear to upper margin of jacket, light brown stain marks to several pages of text. Otherwise a good copy.

One of Dahl’s shorter children’s books telling the story of eight year-old George and his ghastly grandmother.

“Some children may have thought that the Twits – the ghastly couple in Roald Dahl’s last story – were about as horrible as people can get. But then they haven’t yet met (George’s) Grandma.”