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(London: Jonathan Cape 1975). Publisher's terracotta boards with gilt spine lettering. A near fine copy in like dustwrapper. The book itself has slight colour loss (approx 5%) to the top-stain and there are a few minute spots of foxing (hardly worth mentioning) along the text block edges in the early stages of development. No inscriptions. The �2.25 net dustwrapper has no fading to the spine but the top of the spine is a little creased (doesn't show on the face side, only the reverse) with the laminate slightly rubbed away on the top right corner (1mm X 10mm) and on the top corner of the front flap (2mm X 3mm). There is also a laminate chip on the front panel (3mm X 3mm). A very decent example. The basis for the 1989 TV adaptation starring Robbie Coltrane and Jeremy Irons. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Danny, the Champion of the World is a 1975 children's book by Roald Dahl. The plot centers on a young English boy named Danny and his father, William, who live in a Gypsy caravan fixing cars for a living and partake in poaching pheasants. It is one of Dahl's novels that is not based on a fantastical premise and tends to be considered one of his stories grounded more in reality.