The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Published in 1964, this children's adventure follows Commander Caractacus Pott, an inventor living near the Dover road with his wife Mimsie and twins Jeremy and Jemima. After he sells a whistling sweet, he restores a battered racing car that the family names for the noise of its engine. The car begins to act on its own, sprouting wings to leave a traffic jam and becoming a hovercraft when the tide traps them on a sandbank. In France the Potts find a gun-runners' store and the children are kidnapped. The novel is a family chase built around a willful machine, not a spy story.

Bound in pale green cloth blocked on both covers with an image and title in black and dark green. Plain slipcase.