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$18.50
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Scottish Railway Connections


CRAMPSEY, BOB & WHITELAW, LORD

Oblong imperial octavo with light card covers (fine) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 1994

KEYWORDS: specials Bob Crampsey Lord Whitelaw Scotland Scottish railways transport steam engines trains stations history photographs

$18.50
xxkma53768

Ron Bisman's Harness Heroes


Auckland Trotting Club (Inc) 100 Years of Trotting

BISMAN, RON

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Auckland Trotting Club 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Ron Bisman auckland trotting club sport horse racing history New Zealand

$19.50
xxkma53771

Highball: A Pageant of Trains


BEEBE, LUCIUS

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Bonanza Books (year ?)

KEYWORDS: specials Lucius Beebe USA American railways trains railroads pictorial history photographs steam engines locomotives Colorado Santa Fe Pennsylvania's K4 class cabooses

$18.50
xxkma53772

Journey to Amtrak: The Year History rode the Passenger Train


EDMONSON, HAROLD A. (Ed)

Quarto hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Kalmbach Books 1972

KEYWORDS: specials Harold A Edmonson USA American trains railways railroad Amtrak passenger service pictorial history photographs

$50.00
2f43/50

The Ballycastle Railway: A History of the Narrow-Gauge Railways of North East Ireland: Part One


PATTERSON, EDWARD M.

octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 154pp + 3pp adverts, illus, VG (light wear to extremities, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (light wear, rubbing and soiling)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1965

KEYWORDS: edward m. patterson ballycastle railway north east ireland history railways trains transport narrow-gauge

$22.50
2f43/48

The Royal Deeside Line


FARR, A.D.

octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 158pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, light foxing to eps, pencil owner's name to fep) in VG d/w (light wear, rubbing and fading)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968

KEYWORDS: a.d. farr the royal deeside line railways transport trains history

$35.00
2f43/45

The Little Railways of South-West Scotland


SMITH, DAVID L.

octavo, mustard cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 228pp, VG+ (v light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (light wear and fading)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1969

KEYWORDS: david l. smith little railways of south-west scotland railways transport trains history britain

$25.00
2f43/44

The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway


DAVIES, W.J.K.

first edition, octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 204pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, foxing to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (wear to extremities, light fading and rubbing, small closed tear to upper spine)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968

KEYWORDS: w.j.k. davies ravenglass eskdale railways transport trains history britain

$27.50
2f43/43

The Cambeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway


illustrated by Fraser Cameron

MACMILLAN, NIGEL S.C.

octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 164pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps) in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing, bruising to upper spine edge)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1970

KEYWORDS: nigel s.c. macmillan campbeltown machrihanish light railways trains transport britain scotland history fraser cameron

$25.00
2f43/41

London's Termini


JACKSON, ALAN A.

octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 368pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (light wear including small closed tear to front lower edge, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1969

KEYWORDS: alan a. jackson railways trains transport stations termini terminus london england britain history

$65.00
2f43/40

The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway: A History of the Narrow-Gauge Railways of North-West Ireland: Part Two


PATTERSON, EDWARD M.

first edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 189pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG+ (v light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, v light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (light rubbing, wear to extremities esp. upper and lower spine edges)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1964

KEYWORDS: edward m. patterson londonderry lough swilly railway history narrow-gauge railways north-west ireland trains transport

$26.50
2f43/39

The West Highland Railway


THOMAS, JOHN

octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 172pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (wear to extremities including small closed tear to front upper flap corner, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1965

KEYWORDS: john thomas west highland railways trains transport history britain

$22.50
2f43/38

The Snowdown Mountain Railway


TURNER, KEITH

first edition, octavo, burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 165pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, v light foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (light wear including creasing to upper edge, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1973

KEYWORDS: keith turner snowdown mountain railway history railways trains transport britain

$35.00
2f43/36

Isle of Man Tramways


with drawings and maps by S. Broomfield, D.G. Coakham, Ariba, J.C. Cook, P. Hammond, and J.N. Slater, and an appendix on Tickets by W.H. Bett

PEARSON, F.K.

octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 379pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, v light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1970

KEYWORDS: f.k. pearson isle of man manxian railways tramways trams transport trains history britain england

$30.00
2f43/35

A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations and Revelations 1820-1845


FRANCIS, JOHN A.

reprint of original 1851 edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with black label and gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and rule to front board, xii + 282pp, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, v light foxing) in VG+ d/w (v light wear and soiling)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1967

KEYWORDS: john a. francis england english railways history trains transport c.r. clinker

$22.50
2f43/33

Railways in the British Isles: Landscape, Land Use and Society


TURNOCK, DAVID

super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xi + 259pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, pencil owner's name to fep) in VG d/w (light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1982

KEYWORDS: david turnock history railways british isles britain england sociology society trains transport

$37.50
2f41/10

British Steam Locomotives at Work


NOCK, O. S.

First edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 276pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, slight discoloration to board upper edges, v slight foxing to page edges) in VG+ d/w ( stain to upper spine, esp to interior, foxing & tanning to interior)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1967

KEYWORDS: first edition OS Nock railways trains steam engines locomotives Britian British history

$28.50
2f41/26

St Pancras Station


SIMMONS, JACK

First edition, imperial octavo, maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine, 120pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, tanning to some page edges) in VG d/w (fading to spine, soiling to front & rear, foxing/soiling to interior upper edges)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1968

KEYWORDS: first edition Jack Simmons St Pancras Station London history architecture building construction

$32.50
2f41/6

Railway Stations of Britain: A Guide to 75 Important Centres


BODY, GEOFFREY

Super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, nr fine (owner's name in pencil to fep) in nr fine d/w (v slight rubbing to front)

PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1990

KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Body Britain railways train stations layout plans history development routes services travel tourism

$40.00
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The Turanga Journals1840-1850: Letters and Journals of William and Jane Williams, Missionaries to Poverty Bay


PORTER, FRANCES (Ed)

Super octavo, light blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 659pp, illus,VG+ (light bruising to board corners, sl wear to board extrems, sl soiling to page edges, in VG+ d/w (light creasing/scuffing to extrems, slight rubbing to covers, in mylar wrapper)

PUBLISHER: Price Milburn / Victoria University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: Frances Porter New Zealand letters journals history William Williams Jane Williams Turanga Poverty Bay missionaries biography

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