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By: Adamson, Rob , Foreword By Robert Urie / Famous British Locomotives Series
Price: $26.33
Publisher: England, UK: Friends of the National Railway Museum Enterprises Ltd., 2006, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 153389
ISBN: 0954668561
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------softcover, about 8.25 x 11 inches, a Near Fine copy, 48 pages, b&w and colour photos, contents include: Foreword; Introduction; The Constituent Companies of the Southern railway; Locomotive Engineers of the London & South Western and Southern railways; Dugald Drummond's 4 Cylinder 4-6-0s; Robert Urie's 2 Cylinder 4-6-0; Postwar Aspirations and Realities; The Influence of Richard Maunsell; Southern railway Naming Policy; King Arthurs on the SR; Trials and Modifications; KAs on British Railways; Sir Lamiel in Preservation; Appendices ( Dimensions of / Drummond's 4-6-0 / Urie's 4-6-0 ... View more info
By: Adler, Dennis; Foreword By Sir Stirling Moss
Price: $17.09
Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2006, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 160710
ISBN: 0060890266
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
----------hardcover, about 12w x 9.25h inches, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, 277 pages, loaded with colour photos and advertisement reproductions, some b&w, ---"From the earliest workshop days to the grandest marque in the automotive world, the story of one of the most important enterprises of the twentieth century comes alive in this complete history. --The rich history of Daimler-Benz (now DaimlerChrysler) has its roots in the early experimentation with the use of the internal combustion engine by three men: Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, and William Maybach. Benz, working ... View more info
By: Atkinson, Tony; Kevin O'Donoghue
Price: $13.13
Publisher: England, Kendel, UK: World Ship Society, 1985, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 162120
ISBN: 0905617371
Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )
-----------softcover, about 5.75w x 8.25h inches, a Very Good+ example, a wee bit of light rubbing, gift inscription, 116 pages, b&w photos, two colour photos, two pages of colour flags and funnels, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED/// View more info
By: Bebbington, Terry ( Holden Automobiles / Cars )
Price: $39.53
Publisher: Hornsby, Australia, Hornsby, AU.: Clockwork Media Pty Ltd, NO DATE ( 1998 ), 1st edition, First Printing: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 156951
ISBN: 0947216596
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
------------hardcover, about 8.5 x 11 inches, a Near Fine copy, looks new, no dustjacket as issued, 196 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
By: Biddle, Gordon
Price: $26.33
Publisher: Newton Abbot, England, Newton Abbot, UK: David and Charles, 1973, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 157045
ISBN: 0715359495
Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )
----------hardcover, a Very Good+ copy in a Very Good+ dustjacket with a sunned spine, looks close to new but there is a bit of rippling to the pages, a wee bit musty but nothing too serious, 256 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, contents include: The Earliest years; Old Styles and New; Seven railway Architects Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Francis Thompson; George Townsend Andrews; John William Livock; Sir Wm Tite; Benjamin Green ); The First Phase Closes; Trainsheds and Overall Roofs; Plans and Layouts; High Victorian; Standardisation; Reform; The Smaller Companies and Joint Lines; Special St... View more info
By: Booth, Jan
Price: $14.45
Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, AB: British Railway Modellers of North America ( BRMNA ), 1991, 2nd Edition, 1st Printing: 1991
Edition: First Printing
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 162678
Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )
----------softcover, about 11w x 8.5h inches, a Very Good+ example, looks close to new but there is a bit of light rubbing, Craigellachie, BC Last Spike stamp on first page, laid in is a Last Spike postcard also from Craigellachie, 50 pages, b&w photos throughout, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED/// View more info
By: Brown, Ron
Price: $15.77
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: The Dundurn Group, 2008, 3rd Edition, 1st Printing: 2008
Edition: First Thus
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 147264
ISBN: 1550027948
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
------------large oblong (quarto) softcover, a Near Fine copy, 191 pages, b&w as well as some colour photos throughout, contents include: What is a Station?; Stations and the Canadian landscape; Miserable Shanties - Canada's FIRST Stations; The Station Builders - The Architecture; Urban Monuments - Canada's City Stations; Masters of the Station - Railway Station Agents; The Station as a Place to Play; The Station was their stage - The Railway Station in Small-Town canada; The Train Doesn't Stop here Anymore - The Decline; Boarded Up Shacks - The Fight to Save Our Stations; Bibliography; Index... View more info
By: Carter, Graeme
Price: $22.37
Publisher: Wanganui, New Zealand, Wanganui, NZ.: G ( Graeme ) T Carter Transport Books, 2010, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 150958
ISBN: 0473157624
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
----------softcover, about 11.75 x 8.25 inches, a Near Fine copy, 84 pages, colour and b&w photos throughout, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
By: Casserley, H C ( Henry Cyril ) / The Locomotion Papers - Oakwood Press
Price: $13.13
Publisher: England, Headington, Oxford, UK: The Oakwood Press, 1990, 1st Revised Edition, First Printing: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 159145
ISBN: 0853613176
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
----------softcover, about 5.75 x 8.25 inches, a Near Fine copy, 64 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
By: Cole, Beverley; Picture Research By Alex Linghorn / GettyImages - Getty Images
Price: $13.13
Publisher: Germany, Germany: Konemann, 2001, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 151790
ISBN: 3833113553
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
----------hardcover, about 12 x 10.5 inches, a Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dustjacket with a short closed tear, a few slight bumps to boards and edges but overall a tight square copy, all text is in English and German and French, 343 pages, b&w photos throughout, ---offers an original view of the first century or so of railways and trains, reflecting the early influence of Stephenson's Rocket in England, through two world wars, prosperity, depression, resistance and acceptance to the middle of the 20th century. Railways arrived only a decade or so before the camera, and have been captured i... View more info
Price: $26.33
Publisher: Canada, Canada: Worth Books, 2013, 1st Edition, Later Printing: 2011
Edition: Later Printing of the first Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 162159
ISBN: 1903025192
Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)
-----------hardcover, about 12w x 10h inches, a Near Fine eample, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, 192 pages, packed with colour and b&w images, endpapers are a map of Canada taken from the 1906 ATLAS of CANADA showing rail lines across Canada, ---"Within decades of the building of Canada's first trains in the nineteenth century, the railways entered their ""Golden Age"" when train journeys around the country were an exciting adventure, and when trade and immigration began to flow along the rails. A book for everyone interested in railway history, the de... View more info
By: Cooper, Charles (signed) / Boston Mills Press
Price: $52.73
Publisher: Cheltenham, Ontario, Cheltenham, ON: Boston Mills Press, 1980, 1st edition, First Printing: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 155884
ISBN: 0919822312
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------hardcover, about 8 x 11 inches, a Near Fine copy in a bright and clean Very Good dustjacket with some small chips and short closed tears, signed without incription by Cooper, 158 pages, b&w photos, contents include: Introduction ---The POLITICS: The Ambitious Town; Prelude - The Hamilton and Port Dover Railway; The Coming of the Hamilton and Northwestern; The Doublecross --- The RAILWAY: The Ferguson Avenue Outfit; Following the Plank Road; Port Dover Granny; Across the Beach to Burlington; Milton in Paradise; Georgetown Junction; The Beeton Track to barrie; Barrie; The Hog Speci... View more info
By: Cotter, Tom; Forewords By Jay Leno; Keith Martin; Peter Egan
Price: $25.01
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.: MBI Publishing / Motorbooks, 2007, 2010, 2010, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2007
Edition: First Edition and First Printings
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 150013
ISBN: 0760337977
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------3 volumes (ONE SHIPPING PRICE ), 2 hardcovers and 1 trade paperback, HEMI and CORVETTE are hardcovers and are 1st editions, both are Near Fine copies in lightly rubbed Very Good+ dustjackets, 256 and 256 pages, b&w as well as colour photos, ---COBRA is a trade paperback 1st printing, 256 pages, b&w as well as colour photos, ---"It’s every car-guy’s fantasy—to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors... View more info
Price: $23.69
Publisher: Osceola, Wisconsin, Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1992, 1st MI Edition, First Printing: 1992
Edition: First Printing
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 157748
ISBN: 0879386924
Condition: Very Good (see description)
----------hard cover, about 8.75 x 11.25 inches, a Very Good+ copy but the top third of the front endpaper and the title page has been torn out, still all else is intact and clean, 536 pages, packed with b&w photos showing models from year to year, as always with MI productions a great reference book, overseas shipping (anything outside of canada and the USA ) will require additional postage, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
Price: $26.33
Publisher: Paris, France, Paris, France: Editions Hoebeke, 1997 ( Actually 1998 ), 1st English Language Edition, First Printing: 1998
Edition: Later Printing of the first Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 156140
ISBN: 2842300483
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------hardcover, about 9.5 x 12.5 inches, a Near Fine copy, in a Very Good dustjacket with a small nick at lower spine tip, unpaginated ( 137 pages ), packed with super colour and b&w images tracing the history of Bibendum, contents include: Before Bibendum; Bibendum is Norn; A Genius for advertising; The Tire Man's Metamorphosis; Bibendum's World Tour; Bibendum takes a Holiday; Bibendum's Second Life, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
Price: $19.73
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nickel Plate Road Historical and Technical Society Inc., 1982, 1st edition, 2nd Printing (not indicated but there Was a 1981 issue): 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 153394
Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )
---------softcover, about 11 x 8.5 inches, a Very Good+ copy with a bit of light rubbing, signed and inscribed by Semon, 59 pages, colour and b&w photos, ---opens with an excellent history of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad (and its predecessors, such as the Fremont & Indiana), explaining its shaky beginnings and financial troubles until Calvin Brice was able to put it on a sounder footing and then following its ups and downs until the merger into the Norfolk & Western. The photos show plenty of action shots with trackside structures and stations on view so it should be an invaluable refere... View more info
By: Dodd, Brian; Foreword By P J Prior / Great Preserved Locomotives Series
Price: $13.13
Publisher: England, Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd., 1987, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 153388
ISBN: 0711017107
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------softcover, about 8.25 x 11 inches, a Near Fine copy, 48 pages, b&w photos, contents include: Foreword; The Building of the KINGS; KING GEORGE V in America; Design and Development 1927 - 1962; GWR and BR Service; The KING Comes to Hereford; Return to Steam; 15 Years on Mail-line Running; Stewarding KING GEORGE V, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic image View more info
Price: $48.77
Publisher: New Jersey, Scotch Plains, NJ.: Morning Sun Books, 2003, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 146845
ISBN: 1582480966
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
----------hardcover, about 9w x 11.25 h inches, a Near Fine example in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, 128 pages, packed with colour photographs, contents include: Intro; Steam and M.U.T.s; Electrics; Diesel-Electric Switchers and Road Switchers; Round Diesels; The RR Adapts; Wrecks; Stations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// View more info
By: Dow, George
Price: $22.37
Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Ian Allan, 1970, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 160995
ISBN: 0711001286
Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)
-------------hardcover, about 7.25w x 9.75h inches, a Near Fine example, in a Very Good+ price clipped dustjacket, some rubbing and light soiling to rear white panel, 112 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo View more info
Price: $19.73
Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, BC: RainCoast Books, 1998, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 158859
ISBN: 1551921375
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
-----------softcover, a Near Fine copy, a wee bit of very light rubbing, about 8.5 x 11 inches, 160 pages, colour and b&w photos, my favourite is the pic of the farmer with a "rein" tractor -if the famer was not comfortable sitting on his new fangled horseless plough he could walk behind the tractor with the reins to keep the devil machine in check, ---"This book pays homage to farm life, farm families, and to the classic farm tractor. Part family farm nostalgia, part reminiscences about faithful old tractors, this book is chock full of endearing pieces written by all the well kno... View more info
