George's Marvellous [Marvelous] Medicine

Dahl, Roald

ISBN 10: 0224019015 / ISBN 13: 9780224019019

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1981

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 140944327

Bibliographic Details

Title: George's Marvellous [Marvelous] Medicine

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

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 . . .

Review:

"This is the perfect book for young readers who have developed a taste for reading about gruesome and wicked things" (Big Issue Scotland)