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$24.50
xxemd58007

Mediterranean Island Railways


Railway Histories of the World

KALLA-BISHOP, P.M.

Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; 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: David & Charles (Publishers) Limited 1970

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials P.M. Kalla-Bishop transport trains locomotives Mediterranean Island railways history

$18.50
xxemd58012

The Settle to Carlisle


A Tribute

SIVITER, ROGER

Hardcover quarto (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: Bloomsbury Books 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Roger Siviter transport railways train locomotives history Carlisle

$65.00
2g31/18

Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway


COWAN, W. J.

Quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 256pp, illus, nr. fine

PUBLISHER: Molyneux Press Ltd 2010

KEYWORDS: WJ Cowan New Zealand Central Otago transport railways trains steam engines history Roxburgh engineering

$150.00
2g31/19

New Zealand Prototypes: Volumes 1 & 2


Plans originally appeared in The NZ Model Railway Journal 1948-1960 & in New Zealand Railway Observer 1946-1947

JOHNSTONE, IAN T. G. (Ed)

Two-volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with cloth spine, cyclostyled typed foolscap pages, unpaginated, illus, VG (light staining to covers, tanning)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Model Railway Association 1962

KEYWORDS: Ian TG Johnstone New Zealand model railways scale drawings plans trains locomotives steam engines rolling stock goods vans wagons

$32.50
2g31/22

Steam in Europe


WHITEHOUSE, P. B.

Quarto, brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 198pp, illus, VG+ (slight staining to boards edges, soiling to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep) in d/w, VG- (damage & staining from black tape to plastic cover, foxing internally)

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan Ltd 1966

KEYWORDS: PB Whitehouse Europe railways transport steam engines locomotioves trains photographic pictorial history Ireland Britain Denmark Norway Sweden Finland Poland Russia Turkey Greece Bulgaria Yugoslovia Rumania Czechoslovakia Austria Italy Switzerland Germany

$30.00
2g31/27

British Steam Railways


NOCK, O. S.

First edition, signed & dated by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 326pp, illus with 8 colour plates & 94 photographs, VG+ (browning to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, bruising & staining to edges)

PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition OS Nock Britain British railways trains transport steam engines locomotives enineering carriages stations architecture signals history

$45.00
2g31/31

Trains at Work in New Zealand


RADCLIFFE, G. T. & MURPHY J. A.

Re-bound in cloth boards with original paper illus covers included, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 240pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Railway Preservation & Museum 1973

KEYWORDS: GT Radcliffe JA Murphy New Zealand transport trains railways locomotives steam engines photographic pictorial history

$25.00
2g31/36

The Aspinall Era


BULLEID, H. A. V.

Super octavo, dark brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, iii + 270pp, illus, VG- (staining to boards, sellotape residue to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, two owners' inscriptions in ink to fep, tanning to fep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy foxing & tanning internally, sellotape residue stains internally)

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1967

KEYWORDS: HAV Bulleid Sir John Aspinall Lancashire & Yorkshire Great Southern & Western transport railways trains engineering history

$25.00
2g31/37

The Springburn Story: The History of the Scottish Railway Metropolis


THOMAS, JOHN

Octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 260pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (foxing) in d/w, VG (price clipped, fading)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles / Dawlish Macdonald 1964

KEYWORDS: John Thomas Springburn Scotland Scottish railways trains locomotives engineering history Caledonian and North British steam locomotive builders

$25.00
1b19a/7

London's First Railway - The London & Greenwich


THOMAS, RONALD H. G.

Octavo, maroon heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, illus, VG+ (ding to front board lower edge, slight soiling to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling to edges)

PUBLISHER: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1972

KEYWORDS: Ronald HG Thomas London Bridge Greenwich transport trains railways construction history viaduct

$100.00
1b19a/10

A History of Russian Railways


WESTWOOD, J. N.

Octavo, green boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine and blind train motifs to front board, top edges green, 326pp, illus, VG+ (slight fading to spine, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, staining to eps) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, staining to edges, tanning internally)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1964

KEYWORDS: JN Westwood Russia Russian railways trains rail transport history economic technical history engineering terrain climate locomotives steam engines equipment

$25.00
2g30/6

Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971


LLOYD, WILLIAM G.

Imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, vi + 129pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: NZ Railway & Locomotive Society (Otago Branch) Dunedin 1974

KEYWORDS: WILLIAM G Lloyd New Zealand railways transport trains steam engines locomotives history

$58.50
2g30/12

The NZR Garratt Story


MCCLARE, E. J.

Imperial octavo, turquoise boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 100pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand railway and Locomotive Society Inc 1978

KEYWORDS: EJ Mcclare New Zealand Garratt locomotives railways trains transport steam engines history

$37.50
1j41a/16

The North Staffordshire Railway


CHRISTIANSEN, REX & MILLER, R. W.

Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 333pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1971

KEYWORDS: Rex Christansen RW Miller North Staffordshire railways trains transport history

$28.50
1j41a/41

Southland's Pioneer Railways 1864-1878


WATT, J. O. P.

Super octavo, illus heavy card boards with black lettering to orange cloth spine, frontispiece, 72pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to front board upper edge)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society 1965

KEYWORDS: JOP Watt New Zealand history Southland transport railways trains steam engines locomotives engineering Makarewa Bluff Vogel Scheme

$30.00
1c7a/5

AA Discovering Britain's Lost Railways


ATTERBURY, PAUL

Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with red lettering, illus prelims, 160pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine (creasing to front flap upper edge)

PUBLISHER: AA Publishing 1995

KEYWORDS: Paul Atterbury Automobile Association Britain British railways trains transport steam engines Darlington Penrith Cockermouth Halwill Junction Barnstape Ilfracombe Lynton Bath Green Park Templecombe Ryde Ventnor Newport Cowes Uttoxeter Leek Stoke-on-Trent

$45.00
1c7a/6

Station to Station


PARISSIEN, STEVEN

Quarto, white light card covers with black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 240pp, illus, fine, in d/w with large French flaps, fine

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Steven Parissien railways transport stations architecture buildings history construction structure social political context photography pictorial history drawings sketches plans

$34.50
1c7a/12

Steam Up Indonesia and Thailand


JOYCE, JOHN & TILLEY, ALLAN

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to white spine, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to rear cover, light foxing to front)

PUBLISHER: J & A Publications 1974

KEYWORDS: John Joyce Allan Tilley Indonesia Thailand trains railways locomotives steam engines photography photographic history pictorial record

$17.50
xxenc58303

Atlantic Era


The British Atlantic Locomotive

EVANS, MARTIN

First edition hardcover super octavo (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: Percival Marshall 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Martin Evans tansport British trains locomotives history railways

$60.00
2e8a/12

Tangiwa Disaster and 30 Other Railway Accidents in New Zealand


STEWART, GRAHAM

Small quarto (looks like a comic-style binding) illus stapled paper wrappers, printed eps, 74pp, illus, VG+ (small crease to rear lower corner, light foxing & tanning to pages)

PUBLISHER: Wilson & Horton Ltd 1972

KEYWORDS: Graham Stewart New Zealand railways trains accidents disasters crashes

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