Magic Finger by Dahl Roald, First Edition (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pat Marriott (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing as Puffin Paperback. 64 pp. Illustrated. Page edges slightly tanned and showing its age a bit but otherwise Good condition.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. With quiz printed at rear. The Marvelous Roald Dahl Library. Promotional edition published exclusively for News Corp Australia. Mass market paperback. Printed in China. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 57pp. SB-92.

Cassette. Condition: Good. First Edition. crack to front of cassette box. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. numerous illustrations; 64 pages, 240 x 155mm; green cloth, dustwrapper (creased top edge); (with PICTURE).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Quentin Blake (illustrator). First UK Edition. Neat and spotless dust jacket on ditto book. The text is excellent, clean and neat but has very slightly darkened pages, as is common with these books. First illustrated UK publication 1995. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. 9 1/2 x 6". ISBN 867085252X.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ross, Tony (illustrator). First edition. 1st thus 1991. Very good condition with no wrapper. Part of 'The Best of Roald Dahl' Series. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Bumping and fading to spine. Contents are excellent. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. William Pene Du Bois (illustrator). First Edition-Second Impression. Same format and quality as first printing and issued in the same month. A better than very good, unclipped jacket protected by a Brodart plastic cover. Uncommon Dahl title.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blake, Quentin (illustrator). First edition. 1st thus 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The little girl next door to the Greggs can do magic with a flash from the tip of her finger. Green boards. Gilt title to spine. Black and white illustrations. Slight bumping to spine. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine; small edge-tear to bottom edge of front panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover in dustjacket. Early printing. Black cloth spine on green cloth board, bright and sharp with mild age toning to edges,small drip of white paint on top corner. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket, bright and clean, mild shelf wear to edges. Decorated endpages, crisp. Lovely drawings by du Bois. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 41 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tony Ross (illustrator). First Thus. 1st printing with illustrations by Tony Ross, Firmly bound and carefully read. Both book & jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated in b/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first edition in jacket (price-clipped jacket has some minor chips, tears and creasing). [6],40,[2]pp Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. First issue (no H&R code on title page verso; ' 0866' on DJ front flyleaf).over 40 b/w illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Pene Du Bois (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings noted and the code 0866 on the inner front flap of the jacket. The book is clean and bright. The dust jacket is price-clipped and shows light aging. Overall an attractive copy of Dahl's fifth book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. William Pene Du Bois (illustrator). 1st Edition. Third impression of the first edition. Hardback in Good Plus overall condition. The pictorial boards are bumped, surfaces have minor marks and foxing and the occasional small dent, 41 pages, small inscription to the fep, contents have scattered minor foxing, light use marks and wear, binding tight with slight roll. Very Good but for the foxing and marks to the covers. First impressions are very expensive, but this copy is an affordable alternative for the collector. Free standard airmail worldwide.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION WITH BLAKE ILLUSTRATIONS 1995 (countdown digits correct for a first issue: 1.2), 8vo, dark green boards gilt, 64 pages. Illustrated on every page in black and white by Quentin Blake. No inscriptions, minute dent to top edges of boards, page edges and margins lightly browned, otherwise a near Fine crisp clean unread copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, 5 mm (¼") closed tear at foot of lower fold, neatly repaired. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Du Bois, William Pene (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first edition. Good plus condition with rubbing, scuffing, light chipping and foxing/age toning to all surfaces of mylar protected, price clipped dust jacket. Foot of front dust jacket flap shows month code of publication date "0866". Light rubbing, scuffing, faint sunning & foxing to edges of underlying green paper boards with black cloth spine and silver gilt lettering. Interior text in overall very good condition with only minimal appearance of foxing to a select few pages. Otherwise tight, clean and square. Pictures available on request. Shipping confirmed!.

FIRST EDITION WITH QUENTIN BLAKE ILLUSTRATIONS 1995 (countdown digits correct for a first issue: 1.2), 8vo, dark green boards gilt, 64 pages. Illustrated on every page in black and white by Quentin Blake. No inscriptions, tiny bump to lower corner of upper cover, a near Fine crisp clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, minute chip to surface colour at foot of lower fold. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

[Children's Adventure] FIRST BLAKE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.64. With frequent in-text illustrations by Blake; large print. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Moderate toning to paper, as usual, jacket with a few small nicks, spine gently sunned. Very good. First published in 1966 with illustrations by William Pène Du Bois, this is the first edition to feature illustrations by everyone's favourite Dahl-illustrator, Quentin Blake.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'The Magic Finger' by Roald Dahl. George Allen and Unwin 1968 first edition. Some tanning to covers with edge rubbing, spine slightly split. G. No dust jacket as issued.

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Dubois, William P. (illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. An excellent copy with just a little age-toning to the boards, blue and black endpapers, contents clean and unmarked. Covered with a gently worn, bright jacket. An attractive copy of a surprisingly uncommon title.

[Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 26cm), pp.62; [2]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. In-text and full page illustrations throughout by Blake. Very slight rolling to crown of spine. Fine. 'The Magic Finger' was first published in the USA in 1966. This edition featuring illustrations by everyone's favourite Dahl-illustrator, Quentin Blake, was first published by Viking in 1995.

FIRST U.K. EDITION 1968, small 4to, 230 x 190 mm, 9 x 7¼ inches, colour illustrated cream boards, blue and black pictorial endpapers, 41 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white by William Pene du Bois. Spine firm and not worn, small light pink smear on upper board, about 20 x 3 mm (¾" x 1/8") maximum, affecting background only (see image), a couple of other very minor marks. 2 margins very slightly spotted, occasional signs of page turning to lower margins, no inscriptions. VG+ (no dustwrapper as issued). This is the first U.K. printing, this title was first published in the U.S.A. in 1966. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.25cm); original pictorial boards; decorative endpapers; [vi],40,[2]pp; illus. Faint vertical crease and a slight upward curl toward right edge of front cover, brief gift inscription to upper margin of title page, with some faint foxing and dust-soil to covers; contents clean; Very Good and sound, without dustjacket, as issued. Dahl's fourth children's book.

First British edition of this classic children's novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by William PÃ ne du Bois. In near fine condition. Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors and has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century." 'The Magic Finger' follows the story of a young girl with a special ability that activates inadvertently whenever she gets angry.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Pat Marriott (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS UNREAD. No wear to soft cover book.Pages are clean, slighty tanned and tight. No name or inscription.

Pictorial Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40pp. A super first edition copy of this classic childrens book by Roald Dahl. Colour pictorial hardboards and numerous b/w drawn illustrations throughout support the text. No inscriptions. Slight bumps to the head and tail of the spine and to the front edge of the front board. A little finger soiling to the margin of page 4, not affecting the text. Occasional slight thumbing. No wrapper. The book is very well preserved, being fresh and tight - especially so being a childrens book. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Original pictorial boards. Light soiling to boards in places with a little spotting to text-block edges, otherwise very good.

First UK edition, first impression. The story was first published in the US in 1966. Dahl originally began work on The Magic Finger in 1962, under the original title of The Almost Ducks. In the story, an eight-year-old girl, who hates to see animals killed for fun, develops a special power, similar to that of Matilda. The book was part of a project in which a group of writers was asked to create a story for children using a limited vocabulary. Dahl, who was very much opposed to animal cruelty, wrote this anti-hunting story against "all the brave deer hunters and duck hunters in the country". However, Macmillan, who had originally commissioned the story, refused it. Then Knopf, Dahl's regular US publishers, also turned it down. Both, it has been suggested, were wary of repercussions from the US gun lobby. Harper & Row was a new publishing firm for Dahl and they responded with an attractively produced book. The UK edition uses the same setting of text as the US edition. Octavo. Original pictorial boards, spine and boards lettered in black, blue pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated by William Pène du Bois. Light soiling to covers, spine a little toned, occasional light foxing and occasional marks to a few leaves: a very good copy.

Square octavo, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, pictorial boards. First British edition. Dahl's third children's book. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. A very nice copy; scarce thus. (#161771).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. This is a near fine copy. Issued without a jacket. The boards are in clean condition with very few marks on the front and back boards. A better copy than is usually found. The pages are also clean and without marks, foxing or ink. A near fine copy.  First published in the US two years earlier, it is a childrens story about a girl that whereever she points something happens. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. A rare copy in this condition. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1968 Allen & Unwin Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good clean tight binding with pictorial boards. Wonderful cover design & illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated by William Pène du Bois. White boards a little darkened, slight rub to corners but overall a bright copy.