Roald Dahl

First British edition of Dahl's first book.

• Roald Dahl (English).
• Illustrated by Bill Justice and Al Dempster (American).
• The Gremlins from the Walt Disney Production: A Royal Air Force Story.
• London: Collins, 1943.
• Includes 12 full-page and 1 double-page color as well as black-and-white illustrations by Justice and Dempster from Walt Disney Studios.
• Bound in full red morocco by the Chelsea Bindery with the front cover ruled in gold gilt and with a multicolored morocco leather onlay of seven cavorting gremlins as depicted on the title page, gilt titling to the front cover and spine, marbled endpapers, gold ruling and decorative gilt to the dentelles, and all edges gilt and with the original cover is bound in at the back of the book.

This is the first British edition of Roald Dahl’s first book, The Gremlins from the Walt Disney Production: A Royal Air Force Story, published by Collins, London and Glasgow in 1943. The Gremlins was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the “gremlin” characters and the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. Although the film was never produced, an agreement was reached that the book could be published and royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl.