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The Gremlins. by ROALD DAHL

Creator: Disney Studios -Roald Dahl
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
DAHL, ROALD.
The Gremlins.
From the Walt Disney Production.
Stock Code 108644
New York, Random House, 1943
£1,750
A very smart first edition copy of Roald Dahl's first book The Gremlins, a collaborative effort with Disney for a feature-length animation which, in part due to copyright issues revolving around the 'gremlin' characters, never took off. Fortunately the planes and Air Force pilots featured in the story had better luck getting off the ground, but only to be subsequently plagued by these mischievous sprites with mechanical failures and worse.

Laid into this copy is a black and white photograph of an animator and Walt Disney looking at some of the concept art for the abandoned movie upon which this book was based.

Description
First edition, sole printing; 4to (28.6 x 23 cm); colour frontispiece, 11 full-page colour illustrations and one double-page colour illustration, plain line illustrations throughout, pictorial patterned endpapers; publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor chaffing along the bottom edge of the boards but a superb copy in the somewhat frayed, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of very minor chips.

Bibliography
Stock ID:108644

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1920-1949
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1943
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	108644
Incollect Reference #:	629421

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