Lot 2
Dahl, Roald
The Limited Commemorative Edition
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 1991. One of 500 numbered sets, 15 volumes, 8vo (24 x 16cm), original quarter blue morocco with decorative paper-covered boards and gilt titles to spines, each in decorative-paper covered slipcase to match boards, black and white illustrations within the text by Quentin Blake, Jill Bennett, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Joseph Schindelman, William Pène du Bois and Donald Chaffin, respectively, housed in original blue cloth slipcase
Footnote
This set was published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth (Dahl had died the previous year). The works in the set comprise: James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Magic Finger; Fantastic Mr Fox; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator; Danny the Champion of the World; The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar; The Twits; George's Marvellous Medicine; The BFG; The Witches; Boy; Going Solo; Matilda; and Esio Trot.
