Boy de DAHL, Roald (1916-1990)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. [Literary Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.160. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to flyleaf: To / **** / with much love / Roald Dahl / 19 Nov. 1984 (flourish). Publisher's cloth in original dust-jacket, with pictorial endpapers, numerous black and white photographs and sketches throughout. Edges a little dusty with some mild spotting, one neat production crease to jacket. Bookseller's ticket of The Abbey Bookshop to front pastedown. A near fine copy. The first volume of Dahl's fascinating autobiography. This copy was purchased at Dahl's local bookshop (ticket to pastedown) and inscribed the month after publication. It is one of five inscribed Dahl books directly obtained from the recipient, a friend of Theo Dahl, the author's third child and only son. According to the accompanying written account, the books' owner spent much time around the Dahl house in Great Missenden, played in Dahl's hut whilst this title was being written, and had an after-school job at Dahl and Son Antiques on the High Street.