Matilda by Roald Dahl [U.K. FIRST EDITION] 1988 • 2nd Printing

Matilda by Roald Dahl & illustrated by Quentin Blake. 

FIRST EDITION • SECOND PRINTING [1988] JONATHAN CAPE U.K.

True First Edition printed in London by Jonathan Cape.

2nd Printing.  1988

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket is in strong shape; some mild water staining to underside [visible on lower edges; see photos]  White sticker patch over rear panel.  Dust jacket housed in a new HQ Brodart jacket protector.

Book is very nice; clean red boards with gilded spine.  Reads beautifully with some tanning to pages. 

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?