DAHL, Roald. The Witches. Pictures by Quentin Blake. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux [1983]. 8vo, vi 202pp. Blue quarter-coth stamped in black and yellow with light blue boards pictorially stamped in yellow. Black endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Spine ends a tad rubbed, slight sunning to upper edge, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine ends minutely rubbed). With a bookplate signed by the artist, Quentin Blake, laid in!

 

First US edition, review copy with a review slip laid in. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories—but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!