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First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title. 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 blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout the text and illustrated endpapers. Extremities a little bumped; extremities of jacket a little rubbed, some minor foxing, not price-clipped: a near-fine copy in a very good jacket.