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DAHL, Roald.
The Gremlins.
From the Walt Disney Production.
First UK Edition. Preceded by the first US edition. Roald Dahl’s first book, and his one book with Walt Disney. “Disney tried to make a film of one of Dahl's stories called ‘The Gremlins’ (1943), which concerned a tribe of goblins who were blamed by the RAF for everything that went wrong with an aircraft. Gremlin stories were rife in the RAF at the time, and several other books about them had already appeared, but Dahl was happy to boast that he had invented them. ‘The Gremlins’ was such a success that the self-dramatizing RAF hero became a frequent guest of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House and their weekend retreat, Hyde Park. This entrée was exploited by the British intelligence services, who made him a spy—on the Americans. Or so Dahl later claimed” (ODNB).
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, blocked on the upper cover with the title, author and gremlins from the original design gilt, lettered down spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A very fine copy, now beautifully represented in this new binding.
