The Twits. DAHL, Roald.

First edition of this wicked tale, which Dahl wrote to counter the typical saccharine stories he thought flooded the children's book market. His editor responded, "I like it VERY MUCH. You're right: what we want (or should want) for these little ones is stuff with meat, not the yuchy [sic] sweetly pretty material we're exposed to" (Sturrock, p. 504). Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, 2010. Octavo. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Quentin Blake. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends and upper corners slightly bumped, a couple of small marks to lower edge; extremities of unclipped jacket a little worn, spine slightly sunned, mark to reverse of rear panel: a very good copy in like jacket.