George’s Marvellous Medicine. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Cape, 1981. First Edition. Pp, 96. Light blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

One of Dahl’s shorter children’s books telling the story of eight year-old George and his ghastly grandmother.

“Some children may have thought that the Twits – the ghastly couple in Roald Dahl’s last story – were about as horrible as people can get. But then they haven’t yet met (George’s) Grandma.”