![]() ![]() ![]() Several photos of this book are available on my AbeBooks website. The year 2016 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Roald Dahl in Wales. ![]() Quentin Blake writes a note in this book about his fifteen year collaboration with Dahl and how this particular book was gifted to The Dyslexia Institute. Dahl¿s first book The Gremlins is also available. Dahl died in Nov 1990 so this book, was his last. The book and jacket are in pristine condition. The titles are in black on a yellow panel on the front and back cover and in yellow on the spine, with an illustration of the Vicar and Robert Lee on the panels. The fine royal blue dust jacket, with the price in sterling, is not price clipped and has no blemishes of any kind. The copyright page states first published 1991 indicating the first edition, with Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake asserting their rights to the ownership of their respective work. The book is published on high quality paper that does justice to Blake¿s illustrations. ![]() The tight, bright book has no marks, bumps or writings over its 24 pages. This fine book has royal blue cloth covered boards, titles in gold on the spine with royal blue end papers. A fine first edition, first impression, first printing of Roald Dahl¿s The Vicar of Nibbleswicke in hardback cloth covers with a fine dust jacket, published in Great Britain by Century in 1991, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. ![]()
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