10 Stories of Flyers and Flying
INSCRIBED BY ROALD DAHL
Over to You 10 Stories of Flyers and Flying
Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946.
First edition. Publisher's grey cloth, lettered in blue and red, in the original dustwrapper. Inscribed by Dahl the front free endpaper, "To Alan, love Roald Dahl". A very good copy, a little spotted, in a very good dustwrapper, a little worn to the extremities, with small chips to the head of the spine and top left corner of the upper panel.
Dahl's first book for adults, a collection of inspired by his service in the RAF, inscribed by him.
Though a British citizen and member of the Royal Air Force, Dahl first found success as a writer in the United States, where he was sent for office duty after being injured in a flight over the Sahara. In the States he became friends with C.S. Forester, who encouraged him to "write a story based upon his experiences" (rear flap). This led to the publication in the Saturday Evening Post of "A Piece of Cake" (1942), which appears here for the first time in book form, along with nine other semi-autobiographical wartime stories. Dahl's reputation as a children's book writer would only come after "A Piece of Cake" with the publication of GREMLINS (1943), about fairy creatures who playfully wreak havoc with plane mechanics. This American edition precedes the UK edition.
Stock ID: 41485
£1,750.00
