Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Magical Car. Adventure Number Three (3) by Ian Fleming, illustrated by John Burningham.

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, 1965, First Edition, 2nd impression (same year as 1st impression).

Good hardback. Papered boards are rubbed, bumped, marked, foxed and chipped. Spine ends have some damage. Number 25 written on front cover in red ink. Binding firm, no inscriptions, pages have a little foxing otherwise very good.

"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 Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was loosely adapted as a 1968 film of the same name."

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