George's Marvellous Medicine. DAHL, Roald.

Uncorrected proof copy with provisional publication details printed on the front wrapper. Proof copies of Dahl's books published by Cape are becoming scarce. The book "owes something to a circus act or a Punch and Judy show" while Quentin Blake "lightens things by visually reminding the reader both how small George is, and. how lonely and innocent" (Treglown, p. 229). A contemporary review noted that "For some time now Roald Dahl has been the most popular living novelist that we have for children, despite, or sometimes possibly because of, lapses in taste. George's Marvellous Medicine is a good example of this ability he has to entertain the young often at the cost of offending many of the other sort" (Times Literary Supplement). Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 1981, p. 839; Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl, a biography, 1994. Octavo. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Original orange wrappers, lettered and with publisher's device in black. Spine sunned, a little rubbing to extremities, crease at head of rear cover: a very good copy.