Matilda. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First Edition. Pp 240. Publisher’s red cloth, title in gilt to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to head & tail of spine, dust jacket lightly creased and frayed along edges, small white mark over letter ‘D’. Contents pages in good condition

With Bookplate Signed by Roald Dahlin, to front free endpaper.

A classic of modern children’s literature, Dahl’s superb tale of a little girl whose innate genius has her pitted against her inane parents and irate headmistress.

Winner of the Children’s Book Award in the year of its publication