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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Random House, New York. 1943. Unpaginated (75 pgs). Illustrated with one double page and 12 color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Unclipped ($1.00) DJ has light shelf-wear present (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the edges of the DJ). Bound in 1/4 red cloth and illustrated paper covered boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (bumping to edges and corners). Bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Gremlins is the story of Gus, a British World War II fighter pilot, who during the Battle of Britain turned to look out on the wing of his plane only to see an amazing sight: a little man, no more than six inches tall with horns growing from his head, drilling a hole in the plane's wing. Gus was the first man to ever see a Gremlin, and what happened after that would change the war, and the world, forever. Bought by Walt Disney to be produced as an animated motion picture (and considered to be the first story featuring the mythical airplane sabotaging creatures known as Gremlins). Roald Dahl was sent to Washington DC in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester to pursue his writing talent. He then wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore, although Dahl claims to have invented the word himself. He sent short story to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who forwarded it on to Walt Disney. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.