My Uncle Oswald.
First edition of Roald Dahl's first adult novel My Uncle Oswald
My Uncle Oswald.
DAHL, Roald.
Item Number: 126228
London: Michael Joseph, 1979.
First edition of Dahl’s first adult novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Dave Senior.
Dahl's first adult novel stars Uncle Oswald, who, after discovering the sexually invigorating properties of the "Sudanese Blister Beetle"', devises a plan to steal the semen of great men and sell it to women who want to have children fathered by geniuses. Victims of Oswald's plot come to include: Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and Ferdinand of Romania.
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