Eleven children's & illustrated titles, mainly Roald Dahl & ...

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£100 - £150

Eleven children's & illustrated titles, mainly Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake, including Roald Dahl: 'The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me', illustrated Quentin Blake, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985, 1st edition, original pictorial boards. Dahl and Blake achieved considerable success with The Enormous Crocodile in 1978, and this, another picture book for young children, was a worthy successor; 'A Band of Angels. Drawings by Quentin Blake', L, Gordon Fraser, 1969, 1st edition, signed & inscribed verso half title "Merle best wishes and get well Quentin Blake", orig. card wraps, pictorial dust wrapper by Quentin Blake; Quentin Blake (ill.); John Julius Norwich: 'The Twelve Days of Christmas [Correspondence]', 1998, 8th impression, signed by Quentin Blake on FFEP, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (with another unsigned copy of same title); Roald Dahl, 5 titles: 'Boy', L, Cape, 1984, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'Esio Trot', L, Cape, 1990, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Vicar of Nibbleswicke', L, Century, 1991, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Dirty Beasts', NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983, 1st US edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'My Year', 1993, 1st edition, ex lib., orig. cloth, d/w; plus 1 other Quentin Blake illustrated title & Ralph Steadman: 'little.com', L, Andersen, 2000, 1st edition, signed on half title by Steadman, orig. pictorial boards (11)