Kiss Kiss

Sections: Information | Reviews | Covers | Castilian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Slovenian Covers

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Information

Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

• First editions:
  • Knopf, 1960, USA.
    • To identify: Used a standard practice ‘First Edition’ statement and published with a jacket priced at $3.95.
  • Michael Joseph, 1960, UK.
    • To identify: Used standard practice single statement (‘Published in Great Britain’ followed by the date, no later dates or printing statements) and published with a jacket priced at 15s net.

• Contains:
  • “Edward the Conqueror”
  • “Genesis and Catastrophe”
  • “Georgy Porgy”
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”
  • “Pig”
  • “Royal Jelly”
  • “The Champion of the World”
  • “The Landlady”
  • “The Way Up to Heaven”
  • “William and Mary”
• Related books:
  • Roald Dahl Collection
  • Selected Works of Roald Dahl
  • The Complete Tales of the Unexpected and Other Stories
• Audio Books:
  • Kiss Kiss read by Tamsin Greig, Juliet Stevenson, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Derek Jacobi, Stephen Mangan

• Buy this book:
  

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Reviews

• “Small Handful of the Superb” by Granville Hicks (The Saturday Review)

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Covers

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Castilian Covers

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Dutch Covers

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Estonian Covers – Kiisu-kiisu

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Finnish Covers – Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni

Note: this book contains eight stories from Kiss Kiss and seven stories from Someone Like You.

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French Covers – Kiss Kiss

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German Covers – Küßchen Küßchen!

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Portuguese Covers – Beijo

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Russian Covers

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Slovenian Covers – Poljubček