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109. FairCHild, david and marian. Book of Monsters. Washington: National Geographic Society. 1914.
£60
4to. original red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, photographic plate pasted to front; p. 226, numerous photographic plates; spine a trifle bumped at head, very good.
First edition. the monsters in question are a wide array of spiders, bugs, caterpillars, larvae and other tiny beasts, photographed in close-up and wittily described by David Fairchild (1869 - 1954), the explorer and botanist.
110. Farrer, reginald J. the Plant introductions of reginald Farrer. New Flora and Silva Ltd. 1930.
£350 4to. original cream cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xii + 113, with 5
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111
photographs and 12 colour plates from paintings by Farrer; previous owner’s inscription to ffep, with four-leafed clover pressed between prelims; spine sunned, front board a little cockled, pp 69/70 misbound, otherwise very good.
one of limited edition of 500, of which 450 were for sale. edited by e.h.M. cox. a collection of descriptions of the plants that Farrer found on his expeditions to the Kansu and upper Burma, which include cultivation instructions for gardeners.
111. FaUlKner, William. the reivers. a reminiscence. Chatto & Windus. 1962.
£68
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. a very good copy. First uK edition.
112. [FestiVal oF Britain]. emett, [Frederick] roland. “nellie”. the Far tottering and oyster creek railway. n.d. but c. 1951.
£950
roland emett (1906-1990) the cartoonist, whose imagination enlivened the pages of Punchmagazine throughout the forties, was also a brilliant creator of whimsical kinetic sculptures. in 1951 emett was asked to bring to life one of his cartoons, the result was the emett Festival railway. installed in the Battersea Pleasure gardens for the duration of the Festival of Britain, the train engine “nellie” proved one of the Festival’s most popular attractions. it was one of three steam engines designed by emett, the others being ‘neptune’ and ‘Wild goose’. the present model made from printed card derives from Puffin’s The Emett Festival Railway, cut-out Book no. 7, published in the same year as the Festival. our model appears to have been constructed at a date close to the Festival and is housed in what seems to be a shoe box into which a window in the lid has been cut out to facilitate viewing. the maker of the model has gone to the trouble of supplying a painted background and setting the ‘train’ on a pair of rails fashioned from wooden dowels. emett himself went on to design the car, “chitty chitty Bang Bang” for the film of the same name, as well as a number of other quirky machines used by the film’s principal character, the inventor caractacus Potts.
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