The New Panjandrum, G. E. Farrow. 1902. Arthur Pearson. 8vo. First edition. Green cloth with red and black decoration to front board, gilt to spine. Illustrations by Alan Wright. An intriguing story of a talking dodo and the odd characters he meets on a fantastical journey, written as per several of Farrow’s children’s works, in the nonsense style of Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The author is purported to have suffered from loneliness and his honest demand for fan mail in prefaces is telling—he was childless despite being a rather notable children’s author. A very good copy, cloth a touch grubby, corners a little bumped, but the binding tight and square, hinges just starting to show in a few places at gutter for holding very well. Internally clean, some offsetting to endpapers with ink inscription to ffep, but usually very clean indeed.