Matilda - Hardcover

Dahl, Roald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224025724 ISBN 13: 9780224025720

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1988

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, First edition, first impression. 240pp. Delightfully illustrated in line by Quentin Blake. Pages clean throughout bar some grubby marks here and there. Unfortunately, the front free endpaper has been neatly torn out, but the present pages remain un-inscribed. Bound within bright red boards with gold gilt lettering to spine; grubby marks to upper and lower with light rubbing to top and tail of spine, lightly shaken. Fore-edges foxed. Displayed within original unclipped (£8.50) pictorial dustwrapper; bright and colourful with glossy surface lightly scratched, creasing to spine and light wear to edges, slight discolouration to front and back blurb.

About this title

Review:

The success of the recent movie version should encourage kids to read the hilarious, thought-provoking original novel. Matilda is a genius who not only has to deal with loud, obnoxious, idiot parents who scapegoat her for everything but with "the Trunchbull"! "The Trunchbull" is actually Miss Trunchbull the ex-Olympic hammer-thrower, Head Mistress of Matilda's school who has terrorized generations of students and teachers. When "the Trunchbull" goes after Miss Honey, the one teacher, the one person, who supports and believes in Matilda, our heroine decides it's time to fight back. Her parents and "the Trunchbull" don't stand a chance! Ages 7-12.

About the Author:

Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0224025724
• ISBN 13: 9780224025720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Blake Quentin