Tales of the Unexpected.

DAHL, Roald.

Item Number: 140851

London: Penguin Books, 1979.

Early printing of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the inside wrapper, “Andrea Love Roald Dahl.” In near fine condition.

“With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).