Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - The Complete Adventures
by FLEMING, Ian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good + Price-Clipped
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Bound in orange cloth, stamped in silver in illustrated with a drawing of the car on the front panel. This is the first Omnibus Edition which includes all of the stories. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers. 128 pp. Some creasing, minor closed tear to dust jacket -- shows great in mylar protector. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good + Price-Clipped. Illus. by John Burningham.
Synopsis
Jemima and Jeremy Potts watch their father fix up his old, broken down jalopy with excitement, feeling that there is something special about it... sure enough, once the car is repaired, it begins to fly and drive itself around! They name the car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the sounds it makes as it drives them on their wild adventures!
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000814
- Title
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - The Complete Adventures
- Author
- FLEMING, Ian
- Illustrator
- John Burningham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good + Price-Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Omnibus Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books Into Movies; Children's;
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