Ian Fleming – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Adventure Number 1 – First UK Edition 1964

First edition, first printing of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1’. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1964. This is a very good copy. The first of three Chitty Chitty Bang Bang titles. The dust wrapper has a small internal stain and a repaired closed tear to the foot of the spine. It has been price clipped. The pictorial paper covered boards are, though browned at the top and bottom edge, without notable chips or marks. The internals are clean throughout and the text blocks clean – small stain to page 7. This is a very good copy.
Initially written for Fleming’s son Caspar.