gremlins de roald dahl, Edition originale (36 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. Artists And Writers Guild (illustrateur). 1st Edition. The Gremlins, by Dahl, Roald. First Edition: NO: 1-10. Condition: Fine ++. Seller Inventory # BBX-002.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. DISNEY PRODUCTIONS (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Slight edge wear to boards . Red cloth spine with black lettering . Internally clean and sound . A great treasure .

Hardcover. Etat : Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated paper covered boards with red cloth backing. Corners and edges with some rubbing. Front flyleaf with a three quarter inch vertical abrasion/scuff. A pencil 1943 gift inscription from Grandfather to a young boy on half title page. A few handling marks internally. Twelve full page full color illustrations and one double-page full color illustration plus black and white drawings within text. Binding is strong. Book in clear mylar cover. Not paginated.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First printing, demy 4to (11.25 x 8.75 inches), pp. (52) without pagination, 12 full page color illustrations including one double-page and b/w illustrations throughout. Original black spine titled red cloth backed color pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Very good+ copy with minor wear to edges and extremities, some minor scratches and rubs to boards. H10690 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARDBACK - A fine book bound in vibrant pictorial boards and with illustrated end papers. The boards are in lovely condition with virtually no wear and with no soiling. Internally, the text is extremely clean indeed with no finger mark or foxing inset. A very lightly read book in prime condition. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition with light chipping to the spine tips, also to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. There is a small closed tear to the bottom centre of the front panel with a similar small closed tear to the base of the rear panel. There is light rubbing the extremities, but overall a very well preserved dust wrapper that is free of any forms of restoration and shows the publisher's printed price of $ 1.00 to the top corner of the front flap.

50 pp, quarto, illustrated end-papers, coloured plates, b&w illustrations, upper board rubbed, board edges and corners worn, small stain to lower left-hand corner of rear board, else very good copy in illustrated, papered boards, with cloth spine. First U.K. edition - a very presentable copy .

First Edition. First edition. Measuring approximately 11.25" x 9", with bright illustrated pages. This book is in very good minus condition. Minor wear and scratching to the boards. Gift inscription on the half title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O8-120).

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Walt Disney Productions (illustrateur). First Edition. Cover presents with edge wear (including chipping to upper edges), rubbing/scuffing, light scoring (mostly confined to front cover), and corner bumping/wear. Fraying is present at head and foot of spine. Fraying at foot is more severe and has revealed underlying text. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Faint shadowing. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Due to the size of this ownership, additional shipping charges may apply. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover w/DJ. Etat : Good/Good. Color Illustrations (illustrateur). First American Edition. New York, NY: Random House. Good/Good. 1943. First American Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Former owners inscription . 4to., 48 pp., Dust jacket has shelf wear and chipping on edges and corners, creasing due to folding on corners, more substantial chipping on spine (see photos), foxing on interior; book cover has light shelf wear on edges and corners, light foxing on interior and exterior, spine frayed and chipped at bottom; pages clear and unmarked .

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. No jacket. Colour and plain illustrations from the proposed Walt Disney film throughout. (illustrateur). First UK edition. First UK edition. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards with illustration to upper cover. A very good first UK edition of Roald Dahl's first book, that launched his career as a writer of nuanced children's literature. The story builds on an RAF legend of mischievous/malicious sprites that hamper the missions of fighter & bomber pilots during the Second World War. Boards a little rubbed and bumped at fore-corners, but overall an unusually good example. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First edition. Large thin quarto. Corners bumped else near fine in a good dust jacket with scraping and loss of paper mostly on the front panel. Roald Dahl's first book, ironically enough a children's book. Dahl was recuperating from a crash while serving with the RAF when, encouraged by his friend C.S. Forester, he began writing. A manuscript of this first novel was sent to Walt Disney, who decided to make the story into a film, and Dahl went to Hollywood to help with the screenplay. Though Dahl later claimed he invented the term "Gremlins," the pesky devils had actually been part of RAF lore since the previous war. However, they were unknown in the U.S. and Disney, intending to pave the way for the film in the American market, arranged for the publication of this book. Though uncredited, one of the primary artists for this volume was Walt Kelly. Disney's plan was too successful - Warner Brothers produced two short Gremlin cartoons and shortly afterwards Walt Disney lost interest in the project and stopped production on the film. Eleanor Roosevelt enjoyed reading the book to her grandchildren and invited Dahl to the White House (there have been claims, perhaps self-aggrandizing on Dahl's part, that based upon this introduction Dahl served as an unofficial liaison between FDR and Churchill). A nice copy, in a flawed jacket.

First edition, sole printing; 4to (28.6 x 23 cm); colour frontispiece, 11 full-page colour illustrations and one double-page colour illustration, plain line illustrations throughout, pictorial patterned endpapers, with additional black & white photographic print (image size: 288 x 143mm, sheet size 305 x 202mm); publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor chaffing along the bottom edge of the boards but a superb copy in the somewhat frayed, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of very minor chips. A very smart first edition copy of Roald Dahl's first book The Gremlins, a collaborative effort with Walt Disney for a feature-length film which was originally planned to include live-action and animation. Although Dahl's collaboration with Walt Disney in Burbank was successful, wht the book appearing in 1943, by then the public were growing tired of war-related films and the project was shelved. This was also due to copyright issues revolving around the 'gremlin' characters, since they were not an original creation (RAF pilots referred to them throughout WWII). Fortunately the planes and Air Force pilots featured in the story had better luck getting off the ground, but only to be subsequently plagued by these mischievous sprites with mechanical failures and worse. Laid into this copy is a black and white photograph of Walt Disney, with one of his team literally knelling at his feet, looking at a story board with concept artwork.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Walt Disney Artists (illustrateur). First Edition. Oversize 9" x 11 1/4" design. Red pictorial boards with bold yellow titles, black spine titles on brick red cloth spine wrap, moderate corner wear, rub. Cover depicts the gremlins at work destroying an RAF fighter plane at front; back cover features similar vignette, hand drill and saw in hand on rear wing. Yellow endpapers feature monochromatic red collage scenes of the horned gremlins playfully using their tools of pickaxe, bombs, oil cans, saws, hammers, etc. with silhouette planes in b.g. Pages very good, clean; no writing. Bind good; hinges intact. Scarce sharp first edition with moderate wear. A whimsical tale of devilish imps creating aerial havoc for the Allied Forces in the skies of WWII. Full page color designs throughout, with b&w illustrations, partial-page imagery and vignettes. Roald Dahl was sent to Washington DC in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester to pursue his writing talent. He then wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore, although Dahl claims to have invented the word himself. He sent short story to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who forwarded it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood for the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film, however, was sidelined and was never produced. The Gremlins was well received and Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and even invited Roald to the White House. Apprx. 75 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Disney, Walt (Studios) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Fair copy of this first children's book from Flight Lieutenant, Roald Dahl. Original jacket complete, though torn 2/3 of the way up the front panel, from spine through the "G" in Gremlins. Wear to edges, and a small chip from the bottom edge of front panel. The Jacket has also been price clipped. The book is fair with front hinge separated at ffep, scuffing to edges of boards and tanning to pages. Overall a serviceable copy of a scarce book in jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Etat : Very Good. New York: Random House, 1943. 1st U.S. edition. 4to pictorial hardcover. Unpaginated. B/W and color llustrations. Very Good book and Fair dust jacket. Board edges and corners a just bit worn. The date "8-28-43" in ink to the upper right corner of the front pastown, small and neatly printed, and with the bookplate of "J. Rommel" the lower left. Lighltly toned. The dust jacket, in a protective mylar cover, is a bit edgeworn with chipped spine tips and a 2" tear to the center. A very nice copy! (Juvenile, Fantasy, Great Britain, Royal Air Force, Fighter Pilots, World War II) Inquire if you need further information.

First edition of Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin, "Sorry Ray That's a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice." Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of The Truth About Mother Goose, Noah's Ark, and A Symposium On Popular Songs, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon. In total, Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features. Good in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and wear. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House.

First edition of Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walt Disney on the half-title page, "To Joan With Best Wishes Walt Disney." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Walt Disney. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House. The 1984 film Gremlins, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, is loosely inspired by Dahl's characters, featuring evil and destructive monsters which mutate from small furry creatures.

First editionÂof Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Tim xxx from Roald Dahl 19/6/43 There should be a bowler hat and a tail." Dahl has added a drawing of a hat and a tail on the gremlin. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed in the year of publication. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 1st Australian edition, Sydney: Ayres [sic] and James: Copyright 1943 by Walt Disney Productions) Printed in Australia by Shepherd and Newman. Autographed by Roald Dahl. Dahl's first book. Illustrated with 13 full page (one double page) color plates and black and white drawings by the Walt Disney Studio throughout the text. 29 cm. Inscribed, "Love from Roald Dahl". Roald Dahl Foundation book plate (established by Dahl's widow after her husband's death in 1990. Housed in gorgeous custom made red leather clam shell case with inlaid Gremlins on front. Some restoration work done to binding. Lacking dust jacket. Roald Dahl served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot and Wing Commander. In 1940 Dahl's plane was hit by a machine gun fire and he was severely injured. He was sent to the United States as an attache while secretly working for British Secret Service to elicit American support for the British war effort. "His wartime experiences led him to write The Gremlins, a fantasy about a race of tiny people who live in Air Force planes and cause all the technical troubles that pilots experience; the story was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1942 and the film rights were bought by Disney, though filming never took place" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). According to Penguin Press, the book "caught Eleanor Roosevelt's eye and Roald became a not infrequent guest at the White House and FDR's weekend retreat, Hyde Park.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A wonderful copy. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with some repair. The book is in great shape with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with light wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION published by Random House, 1943. This First Issue dustjacket has wear to the spine and edges with several close tears. The book is in nice condition. The boards have some wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with a previous owner's name nicely written on the front endpaper. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A collectable copy at a reduced price with the ORIGINAL scarce dustjacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This ORIGINAL UNRESTORED dustjacket is rich in color with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A sharp copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with NO restoration.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Dahl on a laid in signature. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. This First Issue dustjacket has the $1.00 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Dahl First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl. Illustrated throughout. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards in dust jacket. First US edition. A bright, very attractive copy with very slight bumping at the corners and rubbing to the bottom edge (where the board meets the shelf only); in a beautiful bright example of the dust jacket with a few tiny rubbed areas and one short tear to the bottom edge of the back panel.

Quarter Cloth and Boards. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition (US). [52], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ, decorative endpapers. DJ chipped to spine ends with loss to head and more seriously to the foot, creased and slightly chipped to edges and spine, corners chipped. Inner joints repaired with cloth, text is quite bright and clean. The first edition with the correct price of $1.00 to DJ (BMC April 2002) Size: 4to.

Cloth Backed Pictorial Boards. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. Disney, Walt (illustrateur). First Edition. (Disney, Walt) THE GREMLINS by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl. New York: Random House, (1943). First edition. 4to - 9" x 11-3/16". Red cloth backed color pictorial boards with just the slightest hint of rubbing to the very tips of the board corners for a truely superior copy of the book. Priced dust wrapper in very nice condition with a couple of short closed tears, the longest being 7/8" is strengthened with archival tape on the back, and slight rubbing to the corners. Color pictorial endpapers. [52]pp. in as new condition. Twelve full page full color illustrations and one double-page full color illustration plus black and white drawings within text on every text page by the Staff of the Walt Disney Studios. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +. Rare in such nice condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Random House: NY (1943). Color illus, 11 x 9", cloth backed pict boards, unpaged, most pp with clean short tears at bottom, eps spotted, ink inscription, stamped dates & two labels on rep, one bottom edge with very minor stain, in torn, worn, chipped but very scarce dw. Dahl was a Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant at this time. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK.

1st edition. 4to. Unpaginated circa 28pp. 13 single & 1 double page colour plate + numerous bw illustrations in text. Red paper covered boards, beige cloth spine, yellow lettering + Spitfire aeroplane with 3 little funny creatures on wings on front. Original yellow decorated eps. Covers : shelf knock front top edge, rubs front corners, slight rubs rear corners, tiny hole in fold of spine, slight mark front else very clean& complete. Contents : faintest fox marks to eps else very clean & tight Very clean complete copy. VG.

First Dark Horse edition, first printing; a facsimile reviving the author's first book, which had previously only been published in the American (1943) and British (1944) editions. The work was originally intended as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation which was abandoned before completion. In his preface, Disney historian Leonard Maltin outlines the project's fascinating history. The production had cost Walt Disney $50,000 at the time of cancellation. Part of the difficulties laid in establishing copyright, as Dahl was at that time serving in the RAF where "gremlins" were traditionally blamed for mechanical failures. "It didn't take long for the name to become part of common language. If a book or pamphlet had typographical errors in it, one could always blame it on Gremlins who gummed up the works. [But] this in no way discredits Dahl's charming story or his invention of the details surrounding their origins" (p. vi). In a deal with the British Air Ministry, Dahl gave the royalties to the RAF Benevolent Fund. Quarto. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white, mostly by the renowned Disney animator Bill Justice (1914-2011). Original red pictorial boards lettered in black and yellow, illustrated endpapers. With publisher's wraparound band. No dust jacket issued. A fine copy.

First edition, first printing, of the author's first book. As noted by the original jacket blurb, "Everybody has heard about the gremlins, the fantastic Little People whose antics have become one of the great legends of the R.A.F." The book was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once before) and partly because the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. It was eventually agreed that royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book is described on the title and the front cover as being "From the Walt Disney Production"; the Disney studio wrote to Dahl in August 1943 after publication cancelling any further preproduction work. Quarto. Coloured illustrations throughout. Original illustrated boards, red cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black, yellow and red pictorial endpapers. Bookplate of one Roger Marchand to front pastedown, ownership ink stamps to front free endpaper and half-title. Some creases to spine, extremities a little worn with minor colour restoration: a very good copy.