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SOMEONE LIKE YOU.
by DAHL, ROALD.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Michael Joseph, 1961.. FIRST REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION 1961 with 2 new stories, originally published by Secker and Warburg in 1954. 8vo, 200 x 130 mm, 8 x 5¼ inches, dark green cloth, gilt lettered spine, pink top edges, 295 pages. Short stories for adults. Just very slight faint blotching to spine, endpapers just very faintly foxed. Near Fine in near Fine DUSTRAPPER, not price clipped. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Synopsis
Roald Dahl is known for his sense of dry, sometimes dark humor in his children's books...but then there is this. Someone Like You is a darker collection of tales for adults, and mature young adults. There's the tale of the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, a lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, and more. Some stories included: "Someone Like You," "A Dip in The Pool," "Skin," "Taste," "Lamb to the Slaughter, "Claud's Dog," and "Galloping Foxy."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47195
- Title
- SOMEONE LIKE YOU.
- Author
- DAHL, ROALD.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Michael Joseph, 1961.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- roald dahl adult fiction short stories
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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