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Paperback. Very Good.

. Papeback. New.

Very good overall with slightly grubby cover.  No inscriptions or markings and not price clipped.

Lon.: Great Western Railway (London) Lecture and Debating Society, 1948 Text of a talk read at the meeting on 12th February, 1948. Stapled pamphlet. pp.16 (including covers). Illustrated with photographs. Printed paper covers.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Deeds of a Great Railway A record of the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway company during the Great War.

Paperback / softback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

John Murray, London, 1920,. 1920. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xvi,217pp, 22 illustrations, school library label on endpaper, pages browning, text otherwise clean and sound, red cloth, spine fade and a pale stain on front board; Good / no dustwrapper, .

London: Winchester Publications, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 228 pages. 910g. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and design, a little rubbed to extremities, Very Good with the contents tight and clean appart from browning to end-papers. Illustrated with 5 colour and many b/w plates..

London: John Murray, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Lightly rubbed with minor loss of spine gilt. 1920 Hard Cover. xvi, 214 pp. 8vo. An account of the London and North-Western Railway during World War I. This railroad was, in the late 19th century, the largest joint stock company in the world. From preface: 'Every factor of that great organisation was subordinated to the common object, and the Works at Crewe as urgency arose became a Munitions Department.' Contents include chapters on armoured trains, 'mechanical miscellanea', the graze-fuse, care of the cartridge case, gunnery and projectiles, the crewe tractor, drop-forging, and several appendices explaining finer mechanical principles. Includes frontispiece and 21 black & white plates.

London: Winchester Publications Limited, 1948. 228pp; illustrated in b/w and colour; maps to eps. and toning; d/j creased and worn, also repaired.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London : J. Murray, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 214p. : illus. ; 23cm. Subjects: London and North Western Railway Company. World War, (1914-1918) -- Transportation.

Palala Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Printed by McCorquodale & Co. for LNWR. (10536) Large landscape format Hardback. Unpaginated. V.g. in navy cloth with gilt motif and lettering on front board. The book appears to have been recased with marbled pastedowns and endpapers at front and rear. The name of J. HAYES of Preston (Cleaner) PRIVATE entered into Acceptance of this Commemorative Album form at front of book. At rear of book it details all the various awards from Victoria Cross onwards, together with those Mentioned in Despatches.

n.d. (c.1890) . 8vo., pp.328, brown cloth, gilt, b/w engraved illustrations; foxing to endpapers and adjacent leaves, o/w very occasional foxing throughout, cloth broken along lower external joint, wear to extremities, light marking to cloth, contents very good, a good copy overall.

London: Horace Cox, 1871. Hardcover. VG+ (recently rebound, pages are lightly age toned as expected but otherwise very clean and clear). Bound in 3/4 black leather and red marble paper over boards, gilt ruling and lettering on spine; 72 pp, 70pp, VI, 82 pp, IV, 76pp, VI, 66 pp, IV, 84 pp. Six volumes bound in one. Each section contains its own preface and a list of the contents.

[London, England: n.p., ca. 1876-1922]. Oblong folio. 17.25 x 12.5 x 2 in. [62 pp (unpaginated).] on thick card stock, all leaves mounted on linen hinges, ink manuscript index on ruled paper mounted on ffep., with 62 original mammoth silver gelatin photographs mounted, all sized from 6 x 14.5 in. up to 11.5 x 14.75 in., two additional silver gelatin sized 11.5 x 15 in. laid-in, all with very strong contrast and bright images, split between matte finish and glossy photo paper stock, several w/ neat dates in manuscript at upper corners. Contemporary dark plum-coloured half-calf over pebbled cloth, gilt ruling at borders & at leather corners (slightly shaken, some bumping & wear to corners, minor scuffing to fore-edges), still a remarkable exemplar. This enormous Edwardian & Post-World War I photo album captures the breadth of British locomotive engineering just prior to the 1921 Railways Act which consolidated by 1923 the approximately 120 different railways into four major railway companies, each… Read More