Complete Adventures of the Magical Car (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) - Hardcover

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG - THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGICAL CAR (1/1)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. John Burningham (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - the first collected edition of the three books, which were originally published separately in 1964-65. With the dustwrapper and book illustrations throughout by John Burningham. ***A very good copy in orange cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine and a silver car design to the front board. The silver is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean without any foxing. Internally also very good, with a contemporary ownership name and date (1979) to the front free endpaper. No other inscriptions or annotations. Paper clean without any creasing or tears - just some light foxing to the first and last couple of pages. Illustrated endpapers. Spine tight with no reading lean. Binding square. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has been neatly price-clipped at the bottom corner. The dustwrapper is complete, with a very small area of loss at the bottom of the spine, and some light edge wear, rubbing and scuffing at the edges, with a couple of small closed tears at the top and bottom edges of the back panel. No significant creases or tears. No chips. No fading or browning even to the spine of the dustwrapper - just some light foxing marks to the back panel and edges of the foldover flaps which are uncreased. Dustwrapper bright - a nice clean original dustwrapper. ***238mm x 165mm. 128 pages. ***'"Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car" is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London. Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called "Chitty Bang Bang", built by Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Whigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co. It was the last book he wrote and he did not live to see it published. "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" was loosely adapted as a 1968 film of the same name with a screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes; a subsequent novelisation was also published.' (Wiki) ***First printing of the true first edition of the omnibus edition, in very good original condition. Although a later Bond title, first printings are quite hard to find now in such nice, bright collectable condition. The book was reprinted in 1977 and 1981 and many copies of all three printings went to public lending libraries. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 8528

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