Book Illustrations & Illustrators

Pictures by Ralph Steadman, illustrations from Steadman’s paintings (see specimen below) and line drawings, one historic 1906 b&w photograph showing the dramatis personae, 79 pp, navy blue boards in d/w, d/w a little curled at top edge with a small tear repaired with sellotape, otherwise in very good condition, Jonathan Cape 1999

28.7 x 20.4cm, 700g, ISBN 0 22406 017 1

I suppose this may rank as a Roald Dahl ‘first edition thus’, if such things impress you.  This illustrated edition is long out of print.  One American bookseller has his copy for sale at £185.11!!

See below the description from the dustwrapper flap. The story was first published (without the Steadman pictures) in Roald Dahl’s 1977 collection ‘The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar’.