ISBN10: 0048230472, ISBN13: 9780048230478, [publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd, London] Hardcover First Edition 1st/1st - This delightful book is the story of the Model Railway built and operated by Gilbert Thomas and his family initially in Essex and then in Teignmouth, Devon. - It is illustrated with a set of black and white photographs taken by W.J.Bassett-Lowke and diagrams of the layout. - The fascination of railways, real and model, is perennial. - Here, in simple, intimate, friendly style, Mr. Thomas, poet, essayist and literary critic, tells what the hobby of model railways has meant to him, and describes the gradual development of his now famous miniature line from its humble beginnings ten years ago. [1937]. - Illustrated by that fine camera artist, W.J. Bassett-Lowke, himself the "Father" of model railways. - CONDITION & DESCRIPTION: A facsimile produced from the original dustjacket accompanies the book. Catalogue No. 4102/4. Priced at 7s. 6d. net to the inner front prelim. Few small creased edges. Small chips top and bottom of spine. Few repairs to rear concealed inside the archival sleeve [which I have added since taking the images for the listing]. Superb image on the front panel. [part of the model railway stopped at the goods delivery yard at 'The Great Western Railway']. - Buff coloured with railway track design round the boards, front, spine and rear.Slight book lean. - Browning to endpages front and rear and occasional ...
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