DAHL, Roald.

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Danny, the Champion of the World. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in black ink, "Love Roald Dahl". Danny "is perhaps Dahl's most straightforward and lyrical children's book" (Sturrock, p. 467).The novel is based on a short story first published in the New Yorker on 23 January 1959 and collected in Kiss Kiss (1960). It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1989, starring Jeremy Irons and his son Samuel.

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