Someone Like You [Signed]
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- VG/No Jacket
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, 1954 8vo. original grey cloth uncut (slightly rubbed & nicked, some spotting & sunning to cloth, slight bump to top edge, internally clean; lacks dustwrapper);. pp. [x (last blank)], 360 (last colophon, last blank)]. A very good copy. Inscribed to prev. owners on FFE 'For my pals Valerie and Charlie from Roald. Sept. 1954'.. Signed by Author. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Roald Dahl is known for his sense of dry, sometimes dark humor in his children's books...but then there is this. Someone Like You is a darker collection of tales for adults, and mature young adults. There's the tale of the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, a lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, and more. Some stories included: "Someone Like You," "A Dip in The Pool," "Skin," "Taste," "Lamb to the Slaughter, "Claud's Dog," and "Galloping Foxy."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029259
- Title
- Someone Like You [Signed]
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fourth Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Roald Dahl Someone Like you Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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