9780224019019 - George's Marvellous Medicine by Dahl, Roald (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.72.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.72.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.57.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition tenth impression in fine condition, no markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has a faint mart to front from sticker removal, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition sixth impression in near fine condition, pages clean, binding firm, no markings, jacket in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Edition / Fourth Print (first published in 1981). Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (£6.95 net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 96pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Library copy, no inscriptions, small neat ink stamp to copyright page, white sticker to rear pastedown, crease to ffep, small mark to bottom board edges, tear to top edge of rear dustjacket. (57/1).

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First edition with dust jacket. Neat dedication on front free end page. Jacket has edge tearing. See photos for more detail. A good collectors piece.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blake, Quinton (illustrator). 1st Edition. DW: small nick to one cnr only, top edge. B&W illustrations throughout. 24 x 15 cm. 96 pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear, some toning to boards, bumping to corners. Content is clean and bright apart from previous owner text in FFEP. Light spotting/age tone to page ends. Lightly toned DJ with some edge wear, scuffing to corners, small tears, one small tape repair and creasing.

First UK Edition, preceding all others. Roald Dahl's eleventh novel, about a young boy who concocts a medicine to help cheer his cantankerous grandmother. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rear flap faintly foxed, with spine lightly faded.

Condition: Near fine. First printing. Uncorrected proofs for the first edition of this Dahl novella in which a boy whips up a heinous concoction of household "ingredients" to pacify his cantankerous grandmother. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original dark orange printed wrappers, with provisional price (£4.50) and date of publication ("May 7 1981"). Illustrated throughout in black and white. 96 pages. Wrappers with light wear, slight bump at spine head.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st edn, 1st impress of pb. ~Original full light blue cloth, gilt lettering and publisher's device to spine. Almost invisible faint dust-spotting to top edges. With original unclipped colour pictorial dustwrapper with design by Quentin Blake, protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Original '£3.95 net' price to front dustwrapper flap. Slight fading to dustwrapper spine and slight dust-spotting to top dustwrapper flaps. Text block is bright and clear throughout. True first edition, first impression, with 'First Published 1981' on copyright page and no indication of later printings. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. With Roald Dahl's original dedication, 'This book is for doctors everywhere', which by the 2010 edition had been replaced by the stern injunction 'WARNING TO READERS: Do not try to make George's Marvellous Medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous'. Indeed, a 2020 investigation in the British Medical Journal reported that the effects of George's Marvellous Medicine (administered in the book to his irascible grandmother) would be 'fatal catastrophic physiological collapse' (Johnson G, Davies P. Toxicological analysis of George's marvellous medicine: literature review BMJ 2020; 371). First edition, first impression, in original unclipped dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: 96pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to binding, slight sunning to edges of boards and slight wear to spine ends, foxing to textblock edge. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine and slight edge wear, slight offsetting to front flap and front pastedown from the author's signature.