Books published by publisher Knopf 1960/68

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st UK Edition 3rd Impression, November 1960, same year as 1st UK. 255pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or ownership marks of any kind, the very lightest of offset browning to endpapers from blurb. Good in bright gilt lettered green cloth with small strip of fading to til of spine .5cm. Also good original unclipped colour illustrated Charles E. Skaggs dustwrapper chipped to spine and repaired to verso with tape invisibly to pictorial thus good shelf presence, featuring hearts to upper and portrait photo to rear. In addition to his books for children, Dahl had a parallell career as author of macabre tales for adults; the stories in Kiss Kiss being originally published in Playboy magazine. 'Shiveringly entertaining'. A great addition to the library of reader and collector alike.