Matilda, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Cape, 1988, First Edition, First Impression

Winner of the Children's Book Award in 1988, the basis of a Danny De Vito film in 1996 and an award winning RSC musical first staged in 2010.

This first edition, first impression is ex-library with two small stamps (to the publishers page and inside rear board plus a booking form to the first free endpaper that someone has tried to remove. The binding is straight and tight, the library boards (purple with no titling) are without issue and the endpapers and pages other than previously mentioned are free from tears, marks and inscriptions. 

The unclipped dustjacket, protected in a clear revocable cover, is bright and colourful with some creasing but no tears.

Will be dispatched promptly, fully insured and carefully packaged in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.