Books

(Disney, Walt) THE GREMLINS by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl. New York: Random House, (1943). First edition. 4to - 9" x 11-3/16". Red cloth backed color pictorial boards with just the slightest hint of rubbing to the very tips of the board corners for a truely superior copy of the book. Priced dust wrapper in very nice condition with a couple of short closed tears, the longest being 7/8" is strengthened with archival tape on the back, and slight rubbing to the corners. Color pictorial endpapers. [52]pp. in as new condition. Twelve full page full color illustrations and one double-page full color illustration plus black and white drawings within text on every text page by the Staff of the Walt Disney Studios. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +. Rare in such nice condition.

The Gremlins is a children's book, written by Roald Dahl and published in 1943. It was Dahl's first children's book and was written for Walt Disney Productions, as a promotional device for a feature-length animated film that was never made. With Dahl's engaging storytelling and charming illustrations, the book introduces the concept of gremlins as mischievous creatures that cause malfunctions in British Royal Air Force aircraft.