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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates bright and vivid. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This renowned doll house conceived as a fairy castle is one of the most beloved permanent dis- plays at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. A gift to the museum from Colleen Moore star of the silent-film era and the original “flapper” the Fairy Castle has appealed to the imaginations of thousands of children since 1949. Moore’s dream was to create a castle decorated with fairy- tale themes miniaturized to the scale of one inch to one foot. She spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and seven years making her dream come true-hiring Hollywood set designers and crafts- men to create the castle’s fourteen splendid rooms and exquisite furnishings and gathering antique miniature treasures from all over the world. The minute and precious detail of this cher- ished residence of Moore’s imaginary fairy prince and princess has been captured in beautiful color photography giving the reader a close-up tour of the nine-foot-square and twelve-foot-high castle’s rooms and their treasures. We enter the miniature palace of make-believe through the Magic Garden. with its working fountain and weeping willow tree that cries “real tears”; travel through the Library of diminutive books with contributions from F. Scott Fitzgerald Willa Cather and others; move on to the Great Hall with its tiny paintings dainty chandeliers made of diamonds and emeralds. Cinderella’s glass slippers and more; and explore the castle’s wonders from top to bottom. (MP)