Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £140 |
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Adventure Number One [Number Two, Number Three]. London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1964-65. 3 volumes, 4to (231 x 158mm). Illustrations, some coloured, by John Burningham. Original coloured pictorial boards, the second volume with a dust-jacket, the price unclipped (the other two volumes without jackets, a patch of wear to the upper cover of vol. one affecting one letter, the joints of vol. one rather tatty, some staining to all three vols.). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Robert Michael Booth (1945-2024), publisher, writer, collector and broadcaster. FIRST EDITIONS. (3)