Someone Like You [with dust jacket]

8vo.(5" x 7.5") 1954. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Full beige cloth with purple decoration to upper board and spine. Original dust jacket, price clipped, spine with sun-fade, otherwise Fine, with the faintest of rubbed edges. A beautiful copy of this first American edition.

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".