Roald Dahl — My Uncle Oswald

London, Michael Joseph, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this salacious Uncle Oswald comedy from Roald Dahl. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character previously used in Dahl's short stories 'The Visitor' and 'Bitch&apos. Here, he devises a plan to steal the semen of great men and sell it to women who wish to have children fathered by geniuses. Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Rudyard Kipling, Henri Matisse and Igor Stravinsky are among the numerous victims. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with mild shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is slightly sunned, with a few marks to the extremities and mild edge wear. Crease to the rear cover. Internally, firmly bound. With instances of damp to the pastedowns and free endpapers, however contents of the book are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.