Books - "history"
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The John Huntley Guide to Steam in the Movies
octavo saddle-stapled magazine (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: EMAP Apex Pubs. Ltd.
KEYWORDS: specials steam trains railways transport cinema history john huntely film movies travel guide
Art and its Objects
Second Editoin with Six Supplementary Essays
Octavo softcover (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Wollheim art artists intention representation style art history criticism philosphical aesthetics
Parry's Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead & the Tourist's Guide to Dublin and its Environs
A Descriptive & historical account of all objects of interest that present themselves on tbihs beautifully picturesque Line; esp The Monster Tubular Bridgdes across the River Conway & the Menai Strait
Duodecimo hardcover (nr fine) 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: E&W Books 1970 (a facsimile of 2nd edition 1849)
KEYWORDS: specials Edward Parry Dublin Ireland Chester Holyhead railways trains transport guidebookConway Tubular bridge menai history
Brockhampton Reference: Dictionary of Rail & Steam
Duodecimo hardcover (fine) in fine d/w (nr 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Brockhampton Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Brockhampton reference dictionary of rail steam engines history railways trains steam engines locomotives
150 Years of Main Line Railways
Octavo hardcover (fine) in nr fine d/w; 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Davids & Charles 1980
KEYWORDS: specials OS Nock railways trains transport Britain history inter-city Liverpool-Manchester passenger train services
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
with the fragment of an autobiography of Mrs Hutchinson
Super octavo hardcover (fine) in nr fine d/w; 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Lucy Hutchinson Colonel Hutchinson Nottingham English Civil War 1642-1649 history biography memoir Charles I
Iron Wheels & Broken Men: The Railroad Barons and the Plunder of the West
Octavo 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: GP Putnam's Sons: 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Richard O'Connor railways transport history America American railroad finance Wall Street tycoons wild west farming settlers immigrants
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway: I. Origins and Formation
this volume only, octavo, yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, xv + 287pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, v light foxing to page edges) in VG+ d/w (v light wear and soiling)
PUBLISHER: B.T. Batsford 1977
KEYWORDS: railways john howard turner london brighton south coast railway history trains england britain
Liverpool Street Station
First editoin, quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 88pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Academy Editions 1978
KEYWORDS: first edition Liverpool Street Station London England railways history stations Victorian Edwardian architecture train terminal
Last Steam Locomotives of Western Germany
Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 112pp, illus, nr fine (owner's name in pencil to fep) in nr fine d/w (slight tanning to interior)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1978
KEYWORDS: Brian Stephenson history railways rail trains steam engines locomotives Western Germany
The Australian Book of Trains
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with blind stamped train and gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 248pp, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, rubbing to board edges, owner's name in pencil to fep verso, tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1947
KEYWORDS: JH Martin WD Martin Australian railways history trains locomotives steam engines transport
Boat Trains & Channel Packets: The English Short Sea Routes
First edition, imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi+ 218pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, tanning to eps) in VG d/w (soiling to rear, 2cm closed but untidy tear to upper rear right corner, creasing to edges, untidy bruising/nicks to upper spine)
PUBLISHER: Vincent Stuart Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: Rixon Bucknall England English trains history rail railways trains boat-trains cross-channel steamers Channel Packets mail stage coaches Bleriot railways shipping harbours
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Octavo, light card covers, xv + 2 maps + 696pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Vintage Books 2007
KEYWORDS: Robert Gellately history Europe 1914-1945 Russia Germany world wars Third Reich Holocaust Soviet Nazi dictatorships Lenin Stalin Hitler historiography biography
The Waterford & Tramore Railway
Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 63pp, illus, nr fine (owner's name in pencil to fep, slight foxing to page edges) in VG+ d/w (tanning to interior, slight soiling to rear flap fold)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1972
KEYWORDS: H Fayle AT Newham railways trains steam engines locomotives transport Waterford Tramore Ireland history railways
The Birth and Death of a Highland Railway
First edition, octavo, pink boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece map, x + 171pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, foxing to eps & page edges) in VG d/w (foxing to flaps, tanning to interior esp upper edges)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1971
KEYWORDS: first edition Duncan Kennedy railways trains Britain Ballachulish line Scotland engineering railway history walking gangers navvies Highlands
The Northumberland Central Railway: Its Concept and Context
With notes on the Central, North, & South Northumberland Railways, and Scotswood & Scots Gap Railway, and Killingworth & Scots Gap Railways
Octavo, blue & white light card covers, printed eps, frontispiece, 184pp + 3pp adverts, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: ND Mackichan 1998
KEYWORDS: ND Mackichan railways trains Northumberland Scotswood Scots Gap Killingworth history network transport
The Railways of Pembrokeshire
Octavo, illus green light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece map, 256pp, illus, VG+ (small stain to lower front card, slight rubbing to card edges)
PUBLISHER: HG Walters Ltd 1981
KEYWORDS: John Morris Pembrokeshire railways transport trains history shipping services Fishguard Harbour transport
Cape Furniture
Quarto, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, pattern motif to front & rear eps, 244pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to front board upper edge, inscription in ink to title page, browning to page edges) in VG- d/w (browning/foxing all over but esp to edges, 2cm closed tear to front board lower edge, 1cm closed tear to front flap fold, bruising & nicks to edges, soiling spots, rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Howard Timmons 1965
KEYWORDS: MG Atmore South Africa Cape furniture brass silver antiques history colonial design
NCC Saga
being a story of the LMS (Northern Counties Committee) where the enginement were the heroes and the villain the diesel engine
first edition, octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 231pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (v light wear)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1973
KEYWORDS: r.m. arnold ncc railways northern counties committee history trains
Williams's Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress; A Narrative of Modern Enterprise
octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxi + 510pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (light wear and rubbing, fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968
KEYWORDS: frederick s. williams midland railways modern enterprise history trains