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$14.00
xxkma53684

The John Huntley Guide to Steam in the Movies


HUNTLEY, JOHN

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

$12.50
xxklc53697

Art and its Objects


Second Editoin with Six Supplementary Essays

WOLLHEIM, RICHARD

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

$17.50
xxklc53700

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

PARRY, EDWARD

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

$15.00
xxkld53709

Brockhampton Reference: Dictionary of Rail & Steam


n/a

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

$15.00
xxkld53713

150 Years of Main Line Railways


NOCK, O. S.

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

$16.50
xxkld53718

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson


with the fragment of an autobiography of Mrs Hutchinson

HUTCHINSON, LUCY

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

$17.50
xxkld53719

Iron Wheels & Broken Men: The Railroad Barons and the Plunder of the West


O'CONNOR, RICHARD

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

$28.50
2f39/46

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway: I. Origins and Formation


TURNER, JOHN HOWARD

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

$24.50
2f40/6

Liverpool Street Station


WALTERS, SIR ROGER (Ed)

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

$34.50
2f40/8

Last Steam Locomotives of Western Germany


STEPHENSON, BRIAN

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

$25.00
2f40/9

The Australian Book of Trains


MARTIN, J. H. & MARTIN, W. D.

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

$25.00
2f40/11

Boat Trains & Channel Packets: The English Short Sea Routes


BUCKNALL, RIXON

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

$24.50
2f37/34

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe


GELLATELY, ROBERT

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

$30.00
2f37/37

The Waterford & Tramore Railway


FAYLE, H. & NEWHAM, A. T.

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

$26.50
2f37/40

The Birth and Death of a Highland Railway


KENNEDY, DUNCAN

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

$27.50
2f37/42

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

MACKICHAN, N. D.

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

$22.50
2f37/43

The Railways of Pembrokeshire


MORRIS, JOHN

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

$35.00
2f37/45

Cape Furniture


ATMORE, M. G.

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

$25.00
2f39/9

NCC Saga


being a story of the LMS (Northern Counties Committee) where the enginement were the heroes and the villain the diesel engine

ARNOLD, R M

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

$35.00
2f39/10

Williams's Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress; A Narrative of Modern Enterprise


WILLIAMS, FREDERICK S.

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

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