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First US edition, signed limited issue, number 197 of 200 copies, signed by the author. In his autobiographical collection of stories from childhood, Dahl includes his fondness for confectionery, his Norwegian ancestry, and his loathing for most schoolteachers. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with pictorial design in blind, pictorial endpapers. No jacket as issued. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout the text. Minor wear to slipcase with minor cracking to one joint: a fine copy in a near-fine slipcase.