THE WITCHES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blueish green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with ink wash drawings by Quentin Blake throughout. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with the unavoidable toning of the paper stock are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that remains bright and without fading or loss. Not price-clipped (£6.50 net to the front flap). A very attractive example.

Winner of the 1983 Whitbread Prize for Children's Book of the Year and the subject of two film adaptations; the first, a Jim Henson production in 1990 directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson; the second in 2020 directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci and Kristin Chenoweth.