The Witches. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Cape, 1985. Second Paperback Edition, Sixteenth Impression. Green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Glazed wrappers, creased & lightly faded, contents pages tones, but in good condition. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Signed by Roald Dahl verso front wrapper.

The experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country.

Scarce to find with just the author’s signature as Dahl normally included the name of the recipient.