THE FOREST OF BOLAND LIGHT RAILWAY. by 'B. B.' Illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford.

'B. B.' WATKINS-PITCHFORD, D. J.

Verlag: Eyre and Spottiswoode., London, 1955

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. 127 pp. Bound in original blue cloth with black titles, and blocks on both boards, in unclipped dust pictorial wrapper, which has missing sections at tail of spine and top right hand corner of front wrapper, with chips along lower edge of rear wrapper. Extremities sunned at edges and occasional scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by colour frontispiece and by whole page text figures and vignettes at beginnings and ends of chapters. Decorated by vignette on the page with his motto. Children's book about a colony of gnomes in the vast Forest of Boland, who install a steam powered light railway in connection with working at and extracting the metal ore from, their mines. Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-90), naturalist, illustrator and children's author, was born in Northants, attended the Royal College of Art and taught at Rugby School for seventeen years from 1930. He wrote under the pseudonym 'B. B.' (a reference to the size of lead shot he favoured), but used his real name as illustrator. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS RAILWAYS CHILDREN'S RAILWAYS 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION DUST WRAPPER ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28815

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Titel: THE FOREST OF BOLAND LIGHT RAILWAY. by 'B. B...
Verlag: Eyre and Spottiswoode., London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1955