Matilda by Roald Dahl [UK FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING]

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1988] JONATHAN CAPE UK

Illustrated by Quentin Blake. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust Jacket is like new w/ minor shelf wear.  Book looks beautiful; cover w/ gilt lettering on spine is like new.  Pages have a subtle hint of tanning; faint crease to title 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?