Someone Like You (1953) Signed by Roald Dahl, 1st Ed.

Strange, wonderful stories from an Amazing Writer!

1953 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition Hardcover w/dj.  Stated second printing, November 1953 (same as first printing).  Signed by Roald Dahl at front endpaper.  Beige full cloth boards, black and purple cover design, black, purple and gilt spine titles, design.  Lt. shelf wear.  Thick, deckled pages fine, no writing.  Bind strong, hinges fine.  Dj moderate edge wear; clipped, protected in new, clear sleeve. 

A collection of eighteen short stories of crime and mystery.  Dahl's first story collection for adults includes several tales adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock series and six of which originally appeared in The New Yorker.  There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...  Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has attracted a huge following which can only be more disturbed, alarmed and - thankfully - amused by 'Someone Like You'.  359 pages.  Insured post.