Fantastic Mr. Fox.
“I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement”: Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
DAHL, Roald.
$35.00
Item Number: 148053
New York: Viking, 1993.
Early printing of the Viking edition of Dahl’s classic children’s work in the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a “garden tale” of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. Octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Cover and illustrations by Tony Ross.
In this story, a gentleman fox outwits three crass and vindictive farmers in order to protect his family from extinction. The beginning chapters describe the characters, the following sixteen present a constant stream of adventures as the bitter confrontation ensues between Mr. Fox and Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It was adapted into film by director Wes Anderson and released in 2009 and features the voices of George Clooney as Mr. Fox, Meryl Streep as Mrs Fox, Bill Murray as Badger, Hugo Guinness as Bunce, and Michael Gambon as Bean.
