Matilda by Roald Dahl [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1988 • Viking

Matilda by Roald Dahl & illustrated by Quentin Blake. 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION [1988] VIKING

Later [32nd] Printing of this rare First American Edition. 

Ex-library copy in decent shape.

Dust jacket is very attractiv ; clean and in tact; now housed in protective mylar. 

Book is in good shape.  Navy blue boards with red cloth; boards are clean for the most part, small spot stain on rear.  Library stamp on top of text block. 

Inside, pages show read wear; a few faint stains [see last photo for example] -- nothing major.  

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?