Some Time Never

New: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full red cloth. 244 pp. White spotting to fore edges, some small spots of wear to spine and tail edges of boards. Dust jacket is rubbed, damp stained to fore edges, a few small chips and short tears, small perforations… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner's, 1948. Hardcover. 244p., foreword, very good first edition with Scribner's A, red cloth boards in unclipped but heavily chipped and worn dust jacket. Dahl's first novel for adults, third book. A tale of the Battle of Britain as three RAF pilots battle the original rulers of Earth, Gremlins. Early use of nuclear warfare in a novel.… Read more about this item

London: Collins,, 1949. The author's first novel which he later suppressed First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The book was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is… Read more about this item

SOME TIME NEVER, Scribners, 1948, first edition, lower fore edge corner tips gently bumped, evidence of a faint moisture stain to the upper right corner of the rear cover with some minor bleed through to the r.p.d., some off-setting to the fore edge of the paste-downs no doubt due to the dust-wrapper flaps, else a tight, bright vg+ copy… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1949. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Dahl's first adult novel, a gruesome apocalyptic fantasy on the emergence of Gremlins in the wake of humanity's expected self-annihilation via chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare. 7.5'' x 5''. Original fuschia cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) dust jacket by Stephen Russ.… Read more about this item

London: Collins,, 1949. First UK edition, first impression. The title was first published the previous year in the US, and is notable as the first book about nuclear war to be published there after the bombing of Hiroshima. The final chapter is slightly rewritten and expanded in the UK edition. Dahl would later suppress the novel. Jeremy Treglown notes… Read more about this item

New York: Charles A. Scribner's Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First American edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with a chip and a couple tears on the front panel, and slight sunning at the spine. The author's third book, and first novel, in which Gremlin's inherit the Earth after WWII.

Published by Collins 1949. Hard Cover. First Edition. Condition: Good. Light edgewear and a few scuff marks. First endpaper missing. Clean copy. No Jacket. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with trace wear, slightly bumped spine ends and sharp corners. Top of text block lightly foxed. Jacket in archival plastic protector is moderately edgeworn, toned and rubbed; several chips/tears <1 1/8" with related creasing; spine lightly sunned;… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1949 8vo. original mauve cloth gilt (rubbed & bumped, wear cloth at extremities and spine, a few slight marks to outer leaves, small nick to FFE, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper). pp. 256 (last blank). A good reading copy of the UK first edition. The author's first novel for adults.. First UK. Hard Cover. G+/No Jacket.

First U.S. edtion, in Very Good + condition. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink by author on half title page. Very good dust jacket with a tiny chip on back cover top of spine, rubbing/smudging of the "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York" stamp on lower back cover, and 2 tiny spots on front cover. Colors bright, book overall is… Read more about this item