DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape [1988]. 8vo, 240pp. Red cloth with spine stamped in gold foil. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight crease to front flap and slightest soiling at flap folds). Signed by the author, Roald Dahl, and the artist, Quentin Blake! With a ticket from the event at which this book was signed laid in. 

 

First edition. Dahl’s beloved tale of Matilda Wormwood, the precocious and magical child who uses her powers to free herself from her distracted parents and the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull. The basis for the 1996 feature film starring Mara Wilson and Danny DeVito, as well as the 2010 West End and 2013 Broadway musicals, which was made into the 2022 film starring Emma Thompson.