The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production.
DAHL, Roald.
Published by New York: Random House, 1943
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First edition, first printing, inscribed on the half-title "To Ann with love from Roald Dahl 9/7/43." Roald Dahl's first book and his only collaboration with Walt Disney, The Gremlins was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once before) and partly because the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. It was eventually agreed that royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book is still described on the title and the front cover as being "From the Walt Disney Production", although the Disney studio had written to Dahl in August 1943 cancelling any further preproduction work. Quarto. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, single rule to boards gilt, block to front board gilt with multi-coloured morocco onlay of seven cavorting gremlins with a further onlay of the cavorting gremlins to the back board, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy, finely bound. Seller Inventory # 148168
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Title: The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney ...
Publisher: New York: Random House, 1943
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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THE GREMLINS. From the Walt Disney production. A Royal Air Force Story.
Published by
Sydney, Ayres and James [1943]., 1943
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Unpaginated [52pp.] 4to. Original pictorial boards, light wear at extremities. Twelve full-page coloured plates, one double-page, black & white illustrations. Internally very bright, an excellent copy. . First Australian edition. Owing to wartime restrictions many books previously published in London or New York and imported into Australia had to be published locally. Consequently, Dahl's Gremlins - his first book - appeared in concurrent English, American, and Australian editions. All are very scarce. Seller Inventory # 216826
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The Gremlins: A Royal Air force Story (From the Walt Disney Production)
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New York: Random House, 1943
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Illustrations (Color) (illustrator). First Edition, 1st Printing. unpaiginated Moderate wear to extremities and boards else very good condition. Binding sound. Unusually solid copy of this fragile book. Roald Dahl's first book. Seller Inventory # JH1151453
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The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story.
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New York: Random House, 1943, 1943
Used
First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition, first printing, of the author's first book. As noted by the original jacket blurb, "Everybody has heard about the gremlins, the fantastic Little People whose antics have become one of the great legends of the R.A.F." The book was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once before) and partly because the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. It was eventually agreed that royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book is described on the title and the front cover as being "From the Walt Disney Production"; the Disney studio wrote to Dahl in August 1943 after publication cancelling any further preproduction work. Quarto. Coloured illustrations throughout. Original illustrated boards, red cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black, yellow and red pictorial endpapers. Bookplate of one Roger Marchand to front pastedown, ownership ink stamps to front free endpaper and half-title. Some creases to spine, extremities a little worn with minor colour restoration: a very good copy. Seller Inventory # 169875
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The Gremlins from the Walt Disney production
Published by
Collins, London & Glasgow, 1944
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Colour and plain illustrations from the proposed Walt Disney film throughout. (illustrator). First UK edition. First UK edition. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards with illustration to upper cover. A very good first UK edition of Roald Dahl's first book, that launched his career as a writer of nuanced children's literature. The story builds on an RAF legend of mischievous/malicious sprites that hamper the missions of fighter & bomber pilots during the Second World War. Boards a little rubbed and bumped at fore-corners, but overall an unusually good example. Book. Seller Inventory # 86164
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The Gremlins: A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl from the Walt Disney Production
Published by
Random House, New York, 1943
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Walt Disney Artists (illustrator). First Edition. Oversize 9" x 11 1/4" design. Red pictorial boards with bold yellow titles, black spine titles on brick red cloth spine wrap, moderate corner wear, rub. Cover depicts the gremlins at work destroying an RAF fighter plane at front; back cover features similar vignette, hand drill and saw in hand on rear wing. Yellow endpapers feature monochromatic red collage scenes of the horned gremlins playfully using their tools of pickaxe, bombs, oil cans, saws, hammers, etc. with silhouette planes in b.g. Pages very good, clean; no writing. Bind good; hinges intact. Scarce sharp first edition with moderate wear. A whimsical tale of devilish imps creating aerial havoc for the Allied Forces in the skies of WWII. Full page color designs throughout, with b&w illustrations, partial-page imagery and vignettes. Roald Dahl was sent to Washington DC in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester to pursue his writing talent. He then wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore, although Dahl claims to have invented the word himself. He sent short story to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who forwarded it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood for the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film, however, was sidelined and was never produced. The Gremlins was well received and Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and even invited Roald to the White House. Apprx. 75 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 022030
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The Gremlins From The Walt Disney Production Royal Air Force Story
Published by
Oxford University Press London [ 1944 ], 1944
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
1st edition. 4to. Unpaginated circa 28pp. 13 single & 1 double page colour plate + numerous bw illustrations in text. Red paper covered boards, beige cloth spine, yellow lettering + Spitfire aeroplane with 3 little funny creatures on wings on front. Original yellow decorated eps. Covers : shelf knock front top edge, rubs front corners, slight rubs rear corners, tiny hole in fold of spine, slight mark front else very clean& complete. Contents : faintest fox marks to eps else very clean & tight Very clean complete copy. VG. Seller Inventory # 52554
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The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story.
Published by
London: Collins, [1944], 1944
Used
First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First British edition, first impression, of the author's first book. The book was first published in the US in 1943. Writing in 2006, the Disney historian Leonard Maltin described the volume as "a milestone" and a "charming book". The book was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, although they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once before), and partly because the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. It was eventually agreed that royalties on the book would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book is described on the title and the front cover as being "From the Walt Disney Production"; the Disney studio wrote to Dahl in August 1943 after the American publication cancelling any further preproduction work. Leonard Maltin, "The Gremlins Got 'Em" in Roald Dahl, The Gremlins, 2006. Quarto. Colour frontispiece, 12 full-page colour illustrations (including one double-page illustration), numerous black and white illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards, red pictorial front cover lettered in yellow and black, unlettered grey rear cover, red and yellow pictorial endpapers. Issued without dust jacket. Creases and light soiling to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, minor loss to top right corner of front cover, other creases and minor abrasions, hinges splitting as usual, occasional foxing: a very good copy. Seller Inventory # 169824
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THE GREMLINS. From the Walt Disney production. A Royal Air Force Story.
Published by
Sydney, Ayres and James [1943]., 1943
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Unpaginated [52pp.] 4to. Original pictorial boards in dustwrapper, this with a few chips and creases. Upper board bumped at top corner, light wear at extremities, a couple of minor shaves near backstrip. Twelve full-page coloured plates, one double-page, black & white illustrations. Internally very bright and an excellent copy in the very scarce dustwrapper. . First Australian edition. Owing to wartime restrictions many books previously published in London or New York and imported into Australia had to be published locally. Consequently, Dahl's Gremlins - his first book - appeared in concurrent English, American, and Australian editions. All are very scarce. Seller Inventory # 22264
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The Gremlins From the Walt Disney Production a Royal Air Force Story
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Random House, New York. 1943. Unpaginated (75 pgs). Illustrated with one double page and 12 color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Unclipped ($1.00) DJ has light shelf-wear present (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the edges of the DJ). Bound in 1/4 red cloth and illustrated paper covered boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (bumping to edges and corners). Bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Gremlins is the story of Gus, a British World War II fighter pilot, who during the Battle of Britain turned to look out on the wing of his plane only to see an amazing sight: a little man, no more than six inches tall with horns growing from his head, drilling a hole in the plane's wing. Gus was the first man to ever see a Gremlin, and what happened after that would change the war, and the world, forever. Bought by Walt Disney to be produced as an animated motion picture (and considered to be the first story featuring the mythical airplane sabotaging creatures known as Gremlins). Roald Dahl was sent to Washington DC in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester to pursue his writing talent. He then wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore, although Dahl claims to have invented the word himself. He sent short story to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who forwarded it on to Walt Disney. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 71933
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The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production.
Published by
New York Random House, 1943
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition, sole printing; 4to (28.6 x 23 cm); colour frontispiece, 11 full-page colour illustrations and one double-page colour illustration, plain line illustrations throughout, pictorial patterned endpapers, with additional black & white photographic print (image size: 288 x 143mm, sheet size 305 x 202mm); publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor chaffing along the bottom edge of the boards but a superb copy in the somewhat frayed, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of very minor chips. A very smart first edition copy of Roald Dahl's first book The Gremlins, a collaborative effort with Walt Disney for a feature-length film which was originally planned to include live-action and animation. Although Dahl's collaboration with Walt Disney in Burbank was successful, wht the book appearing in 1943, by then the public were growing tired of war-related films and the project was shelved. This was also due to copyright issues revolving around the 'gremlin' characters, since they were not an original creation (RAF pilots referred to them throughout WWII). Fortunately the planes and Air Force pilots featured in the story had better luck getting off the ground, but only to be subsequently plagued by these mischievous sprites with mechanical failures and worse. Laid into this copy is a black and white photograph of Walt Disney, with one of his team literally knelling at his feet, looking at a story board with concept artwork. Seller Inventory # 108644
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