Danny: The Champion of the World
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Overview:
- Title: Danny: The Champion of the World
- Author: Roald Dahl
- Year: 1975
- ISBN-10: 0224012010
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- Pages: 206
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Danny: The Champion of the World
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Title page illustrated, undated, displays on three lines flushleft: Danny The Champion of the World --images provided by two ABEbooks dealers (bi=22494007405, bi=22838277979)
- Another ABEbooks dealer provides image of inscription signed by Roald Dahl, dated "Oct 31 1975" (bi=13714665274).
- Publication date 1975-10-30 and cover image from Amazon UK 2018-07-05, with heading/title that contains comma (same as Library of Congress report of title page) instead of colon.
- Cover artist is interior illustrator Bennett, clearly from comparison of front cover and title page. "Jacket design by Jill Bennett" stated on back inside flap, from image provided by another dealer (bi=17351092873); with blurb about the writer, none about the illustrator. As of 2018-07-05 another dealer at ABEbooks lists (bi=21031504208, US$ 115,820.75), "The Jill Bennett archive of illustrations for the first edition of Roald Dahl's Danny The Champion of The World. Including correspondence between the author, artist and the publishers Jonathan Cape, Alfred A. Knopf and Penguin (Puffin) Books."