Matilda by Roald Dahl [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1990

Matilda by Roald Dahl w. illustrations by Quentin Blake. 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1990] PUFFIN BOOKS

Rare 1st printing w/ metallic embossed title fonts on cover.

Vintage trade paperback. Like new with minor wear.

Who put superglue in Dad's hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom tear out of the house? Only sweet, gentle Matilda knows. Because she's the one playing all the jokes! She's a genius with idiot parents—and she's having a great time driving them crazy. But at school things are different. At school there's Miss Trunchbull, two hundred pounds of kid-hating bully. Pull a trick on "The Trunchbull" and she'll string you up. Get rid of The Trunchbull and you'll be a hero for every kid in Crunchem Hall. But that would take a superhuman genius. Or may a sweet, gentle—crafty—genius?