Item #108164 In Loco Pueri. Steam on the Adelaide-Aldgate Line. The Pump Press, Gerald L. FISCHER.
In Loco Pueri. Steam on the Adelaide-Aldgate Line
In Loco Pueri. Steam on the Adelaide-Aldgate Line

In Loco Pueri. Steam on the Adelaide-Aldgate Line

Mosman, The Pump Press, 1979.

114 × 63 mm, [12] pages (last blank) with six illustrations (two different printer's blocks reproduced three times each), and the printer's mark (printed in red) on the title page; the colophon is printed on the inside rear wrapper.

Cord-bound decorated wrappers; a fine copy.

Number 93 of only 97 copies. Accompanying the booklet is an autograph letter signed by Gerald Fischer (quarto, two pages, Mosman, 20 December 1979) to David [Saunders, then Professor of Architecture at the University of Adelaide]. Among other things (plans for the Lyndoch block, the sculpture of Bert Flugelman), Gerald Fischer tells the back-story to this little publication, doggerel that celebrates the locomotives of the 'great steam years of the 1930's and 1940's in South Australia'. [2 items].

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