Matilda
by Roald Dahl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0670824399
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824397
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st American Edition, 2nd Printing. Missing dust jacket.
Book is in Very Good+ condition, with very light rubbing to corners, prior owner name neatly scribbed out on top edge corner of front pastedown. 9 pages in the first quarter of the book have been creased at the top edge corner (have since been smoothed out). Pages otherwise clean and tight.
Synopsis
Roald Dahl does it again with his tale of little Matilda . Matilda is a genius. She knows that, and so does her teacher Miss Honey, but every other adult in her life is short-sighted and mean. Can this odd, lovable little girl manage to find a better family to live with? Prijs van de Nederlandse Kinderjury (1989) , Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Read Aloud (1990), Younger Readers (1997) (1990) , Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (1991) , Blue Peter Book Award for Voter's Award - Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest (2000) , Red House Children's Book Award (1989) ...more Red House Children's Book Award (1989) , Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award for Book Award (1991) , Massachusetts Children's Book Award (1992) , Nevada Young Readers' Award for Intermediate Category (1992) , Beehive Awards for Children's Fiction (1991) , Virginia Readers' Choice for Elementary (1990) , Indian Paintbrush Book Award (1991)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Givens Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20119
- Title
- Matilda
- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Illustrator
- Quentin Blake
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670824399
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824397
- Publisher
- Viking Kestrel
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Matilda, children, juvenile, classics, literature, first american edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Book Signed/First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.