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By: Chester, Keith
Price: $32.90
Publisher: Clevedon, Avon, U.K., Channel View Publications: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013206
116pp., illustrated throughout: photographic b/white halftone plates (various sources), line-drawn plans and tables. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Gloss, illustrated card wrapper undamaged. Textblock pristine. This is the story, in picture and word, of the East European narrow gauge rail systems . . . Contents include: Prelims., Introduction, Abbs., 9 chapters. Book weight approx. 425g. View more info
By: Cockman, F. G.
Price: $9.40
Publisher: England, Shire Publications: 1992
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 010304
104pp., b/white photographic illustrations and line-drawn location diagrams throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly surface scuffed. "After 1948 different circumstances caused a change of attitude and there was a wholesale closure of branch lines between 1952 and 1967. One result is that hundreds of miles of quiet trackways are awaiting exploration . . . " Contents include: Preface, 24 chapters, Appendix, Inde... View more info
By: Dressler, Thomas
Price: $26.32
Publisher: Hicksville, New York, Leeward Graphics Ltd., for N.J. International Inc.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013143
(1980). 88pp., illustrated throughout: colour, b/white and monochrome photographic halftone plates (various sources). Oblong (landscape format - double column text). Book clean. Spine firm and square. Colour-illustrated card wrapper lightly edgeworn, with a soft lower foredge corner crease on front board. Textblock unmarked. This book tells the story of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) heavy articulated compound type steam locomotive of the 2-8-8-2 wheel ... View more info
By: Gardner, Jack
Price: $28.20
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006827
(viii) + 245pp., b/white halftone plate endpapers (different), plus an unpaginated, like illustrated photographic section. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Boards lightly bumped and very lightly faded on foot. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn. Jack Gardner was a footplateman on British Rail, whose duties took him from steam locomotives to diesels and on to the High Speed Train. For ... View more info
By: Gordon, D.I.
Price: $26.32
Publisher: Newton Abbot, Devon, U.K., David & Charles: 1977
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 006295
256pp., illustrated throughout; 39 b/white halftone plates, 8 facsimiles, 8 maps, plus a flecked, tipped-in fold-put map affixed to rear pastedown. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Black boards nominally bumped. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and U.V. affected (sunned) on spine. This stand-alone volume in the 'Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain' series include... View more info
By: Hasenson, A.
Price: $24.44
Publisher: London, Howard Baker Publishers: 1970
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003150
208pp., 2 x 8 page, unpaginated b/w half-tone plate sections, one of historic illustrations, the other of contemporary plates. Intext maps and tables throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Boards bumped on lower foredge corner. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn, creased and abraded, re-inforcing with clear tape affixed to inner folds. The fully-documented story of one of the world's most gla... View more info
By: Haut, E.J.G.
Price: $51.70
Publisher: La Jolla, California, A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc.: 1981
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 013305
(xi), + 180pp., unpaginated colour plates, intext b/white halftone plates, schematic and sectional drawings, plus tables throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain brown boards undamaged. Textblock edges flecked, else leaves unmarked. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket lightly edgeworn only. 'A History of the Electric Locomotive, Volume 2' is a convincing, colourful and comprehensive examination of the nature and potential of... View more info
By: Herring, Peter
Price: $30.08
Publisher: Devon, England, David & Charles: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009123
288pp., illustrated throughout: dark sepia monochrome halftone plates (archival and other sources), plus colour poster facsimiles and catch-colour panels. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Gloss, pictorially-illustrated boards undamaged. Text-block pristine. Like-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. This book celebrates a time when a (British) train journey remained an adventure,a time when steam locomotives hauled a nation and its pr... View more info
By: Johnston, Hank
Price: $72.38
Publisher: Glendale, CA, USA, Trans-Anglo Books: 1984
Edition: First Edition (Stated)
Seller ID: 008013
160pp., illustrated throughout: endpaper maps (drawn by Donald C. DeVere), monochrome halftone plates (mostly historic photographs from author's collection), plus a small line-drawn schematic. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm, nominally bumped spine. Green faux-leather boards undamaged. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket minimally edgeworn, and colour-faded on spine, else very good. A superb pictorial account of the glory days o... View more info
Price: $16.92
Publisher: Bristol, England, Parragon: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011588
96pp., colour and b/white illustrations throughout. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Gloss-illustrated boards negligibly edge-bumped only. Like-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket softly edge-creased at head of spine. From the rear cover: "Throughout the long history of railways there have been some truly terrifying accidents. 'Great Train Disasters' charts the worst of these. With accounts of furious flash floods in India, disastrous conflagrations ... View more info
By: Krieger, Michael
Price: $26.32
Publisher: New York, Metro Books (Friedman/Fairfax Publishers): 1998
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
Seller ID: 013314
176pp., illustrated throughout (including endpapers and frontispiece): colour, duotone, and monochrome halftone plates. Book clean and square. Gilt title over firm backstrip. Plain grey boards undamaged. Textblock pristine. Monochrome, photographically-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket minimally edgeworn only. From the rear panel: "Region by region, 'Where Rails Meet the Sea' chronicles the fascinating history of America's railroad and maritime developm... View more info
By: McCarthy, K.
Price: $18.80
Publisher: Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia, The Light Railway Research Society of Australia: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013190
43pp., saddle-stitched, staple-bound format booklet. Illustrated throughout: maps and line-drawings by the author, plus numerous b/white halftone plates (archival and private sources). Book clean and 'square'. Monochrome, pictorially-illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock unmarked. This stand-alone (Australian) Light Railways No. 60 tells the story of the Corrimal Colliery Railway situated near Wollongong, New South Wales. Contents include: Prelims., I... View more info
By: McDonnell, Greg
Price: $20.68
Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Canada, Boston Mills Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
Seller ID: 008804
119pp. Oblong (landscape) format. Pictorial colour plates throughout. Book clean. Vivid silver title over firm and square spine. Plain black boards undamaged. Text-block pristine. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. A resident, professional firefighter in Ontario, Canada, the author has spent a lifetime observing, photographing and writing about railroads. In this book his truly magnificent photography of Canadian freight ... View more info
By: Noble, Tom
Price: $18.80
Publisher: Somerset, United Kingdom, Haynes / Oxford Pub. Co.: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012110
112pp., colour and b/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain green boards very lightly bumped at foot. Leaves clean. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edge-creased at head of spine, one very small closed tear to same. From the jacket flap: "The Mallaig Extension of the West Highland Railway was one of the last major railway construction feats in Britain. Numerous civil engineering structures, s... View more info
By: Pole, Graeme
Price: $13.16
Publisher: Canmore, Alberta, Canada, Altitude Publishing: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011532
80pp., b/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear cover: "Railway history comes alive in this fascinating book about one of Canada's most incredible railway stories. Describes the construction and operation of the world-famous Canadian Pacific Railway through the treacherous Kicking Horse Pass in the Canadian Rockies . . . The Spiral Tunnels are explained through stor... View more info
Price: $46.53
Publisher: Berkeley, California, U.S.A., Howell-North Books: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008029
144pp., monochrome, sketch-art endpapers (George Mathis), plus numerous intext historic halftone plates (archival, and from private collections) throughout, together with several diagrams. Undamaged, folded locality map in like condition rear pocket. Book clean and square. Spine lightly bumped. Brown boards very good. Textblock has several light flecks, else clean. Sketch-art illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped, edgeworn, slightly abraded on spi... View more info
By: Rae, Lou
Price: $39.29
Publisher: Sandy Bay, TAS, Australia, (Author) Lou Rae: 1994
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 008080
ii, + 94pp., illustrated throughout; stunning colour plates, b/white halftone plates, and line drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper trivially bumped only. Text-block unmarked. First published in 1988, this book tells the story of the ABT Railway, operated in the Mount Lyell Region of Tasmania, Australia. Now just a memory, having been finally closed and dismantled in 1963, it is hoped by many to resurrect the ABT Railway for... View more info
By: Rae, Lou
Price: $47.00
Publisher: Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, Author (Lou Rae): 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013210
ii, + 94pp., illustrated throughout: colour and b/white plates (archival, author and private sources). Book clean and square. Spine firm. A trivial bump on foredge of rear, pictorially-illustrated gloss wrapper, else undamaged. Text-block pristine. A fascinating pictorial history of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd., published on the occasion of the company's centenary. Contents include; Prelims., 6 chapters, viz: Formation, Building Smelters and Railway, Battle f... View more info
Price: $15.04
Publisher: Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, Marksman Publications: 2005
Edition: Ninth Edition
Seller ID: 012309
95pp., intext, b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. photographic, colour-illustrated card wrapper minimally bumped on foredge corners, else undamaged. Textblock pristine. This helpful title provides general, special and operating information regarding British Standard Gauge Railways running during 2005/2006. Book weight approx. 235g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
By: Siviter, Roger
Price: $23.50
Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Books: 1988
Seller ID: 008818
Unpaginated. 15 colour photographic illustrations, plus 199 b/white photographic illustrations, throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain blue cloth boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edge-creased. " 'Scottish Steam Routes' is a magnificent photographic album of the various preserved steam workings that have travelled the scenic lines of Scotland since the early 1970s.... View more info
