NMLP P-026558 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Dirty Beasts

Roald Dahl · Jonathan Cape · 1983

UK Cape true first. Dahl disliked the Fawcett illustrations, and Cape reissued the book in 1984 illustrated by Quentin Blake; the Fawcett-illustrated 1983 printing is the collected first. A US Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition followed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-026558 for "Dirty Beasts" by Roald Dahl (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-026558, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).