dahl roald flight lieutenant (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Walt Disney. Red front cover, yellow cloth spine, grey back cover. Front cover has been drawn on, corners badly rubbed, spine grubby but intact, back cover badly rubbed in one corner (see photo). Contents clean and tight but beginning of wear to hinges. Dirt on back endpaper. From the library of Clive King, the Gremlins appear again in his "Sound of Propellers".

Hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : No dust jacket. Illustrations (Color) (illustrateur). 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.

Hardcover. Disney Studio (illustrateur). 1st ed. 1st ptg. 4to, cloth-backed pictorial boards, with color and gray-scale illustrations from the Disney Studio. Light wear to board edges. A previous owner added surprisingly appropriate text balloons to the front endpaper drawings. Near fine.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 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. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First edition. Large thin quarto. Corners bumped else near fine in a good dust jacket with scraping and loss of paper mostly on the front panel. Roald Dahl's first book, ironically enough a children's book. Dahl was recuperating from a crash while serving with the RAF when, encouraged by his friend C.S. Forester, he began writing. A manuscript of this first novel was sent to Walt Disney, who decided to make the story into a film, and Dahl went to Hollywood to help with the screenplay. Though Dahl later claimed he invented the term "Gremlins," the pesky devils had actually been part of RAF lore since the previous war. However, they were unknown in the U.S. and Disney, intending to pave the way for the film in the American market, arranged for the publication of this book. Though uncredited, one of the primary artists for this volume was Walt Kelly. Disney's plan was too successful - Warner Brothers produced two short Gremlin cartoons and shortly afterwards Walt Disney lost interest in the project and stopped production on the film. Eleanor Roosevelt enjoyed reading the book to her grandchildren and invited Dahl to the White House (there have been claims, perhaps self-aggrandizing on Dahl's part, that based upon this introduction Dahl served as an unofficial liaison between FDR and Churchill). A nice copy, in a flawed jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 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, slight rubs corners, tiny snag in fold of cloth spine, else very clean & complete. Contents : very clean & tight. Very clean attractive copy. VG.