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BIZARRE SHIPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
London.Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1970. [v], xviii, [1], 2-212pp. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original cloth gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Fore-edges beginning to brown; bookplate to front paste-down endpaper; wrapper is price-clipped and a trifle rubbed at edges; else a very good copy.
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BLACK-SAILED TRADERS. The Keels and Wherries of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Newton Abbot. David & Charles, 1972. Hardback with original pictorial dust-wrapper. Second impression. Some spotting to rear endpapaer and inside rear dust-wrapper, else a very good copy in a like wrapper.
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BRITISH PASSENGER LINERS OF THE FIVE OCEANS, A Record of the British Passenger Lines and their Liners from 1838 to the Present Day.
London.Putnam & Company Ltd. 1963. 559pp. Illustrated throughout. Original dark blue buckram, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper.
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CLYDE RIVER and other Steamers.
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1937. Hardcover, No dust-wrapper. 254 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding a little cocked; few spots on; else a very good copy.
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Famous trains. With 58 illustrations. Meccano Library No.1.
Liverpool: Meccano Limited, 1928. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. vii, [1], 192 pages. Original red cloth. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Piece missing from front panel of wrapper; and a little chipped at extremities; else a very good copy.
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HANDBOOK OF THE AUSTIN TEN-FOUR.
Birmingham: The Austin Motor Co Ltd, No date [circa 1933]. Softcover. 63 pages. Illustrated. Staples a little rusty; the odd mark; else very good in the original semi-stiff printed covers which are a little marked and creased.
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Jane's ALL THE WORLD AIRCRAFT 1945. Collectors' Edition.
London: Harper Collins, 1994. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 4to. First printing thus. Very slight signs of creasing to wrapper at head of spine; small ownership label on front endpaper; else a fine copy. This book is extremely heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a quotation.
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LEYLAND BUS MK 2.
Glossop, Derbyshire: The Transport Publishing Company, 1984. 524 pages. Illustrated. Original boards; original dust-wrapper. Quarto: 290 x 220 mm. First edition. A fine copy.
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LOCOMOTIVE BREAKDOWNS Emergencies and their Remedies An up-to-date Catechism. Enlarged and Revised to date by Wm. W. Wood, Air Brake Inspector. Eighth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Fully Illustrated.
New York: The Norman Henley Publishing Co, 1916. Softback. 293, [1 blank], [16 ad's] pages. One folding plate. Original flexible cloth covers. Octavo. 16.5 x 11 cm. Small cup mark on upper cover; trifle strained at joint between frontispiece and title; else very good.
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M. G. CARS. A practical guide to maintenance and repair covering models from 1934. Car Maintenance Series. With 119 illustrations.
London: Arthur Pearson Limited, 1958. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 196 pages, plus ad's. Illustrated. Some spotting to endpapers; else a very good copy.
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MAP OF LONDON’S UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS. Issued Free. Commercial Manager’s Office.
June 1927. Folding cloth-backed pocket map printed in colour. Covers orange. Unfolded: 127 x 145mm. Folded: 127 x 50mm. Phone number written in ink to blank area of map; address label for Watteau Restaurant to upper cover [map probably supplied by the restaurant]; else a very good copy.
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MAP OF LONDON’S UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS. Issued Free. Publicity Manager’s Office.
No date [1932]. Folding cloth-backed pocket map printed in colour. Covers orange. Unfolded: 144 x 168mm. Folded: 144 x 57mm. A very good copy.
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MAP OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF LONDON. What to see and How to see it.
Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd, 1919. Folding pocket map. 277 x 348 mm. 138 x 88mm. splitting along one fold, else very good.
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MAP OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF LONDON. What to see and How to Travel.
1921. Folding pocket map. Unfolded: 280 x 345 mm. Folded: 140 x 88mm. Slight browning; else very good.
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MAP OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF LONDON. What to see and How to Travel.
1923. Folding pocket map. Unfolded: 370 x 450 mm. Folded: 152 x 75mm. One small brown spot; small manuscript ‘7’ at top of front panel; else very good.
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MERCHANT SHIPS 1959 Edition. Assistant Editor: Colin E. Baker.
London.The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph. 1959. [xii adverts], xxiv, 1-475pp + [6] adverts at rear. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Simulated blue morocco gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Oblong quarto. First edition thus. Top edge of wrapper a little creased; else a near fine copy.Includes two loosely laid-in 16pp supplements, both in blue wrappers, from August 1960 and May 1961.
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MR, JULEP JUDKINS'S FIRST JOURNEY BY RAIL, from "Home, Sweet Home."
Birmingham: M. Billing and Co, 1870. [6], 17 pages. 2 illustrations. Original red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front pastedown, 'To J. Doveston Esq with the Author's very kind regards Dec 9 1870.' Inner joints cracked; covers have some damp blotching; else very good. Scarce.
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NORTH STAR TO SOUTHERN CROSS.
Prescot.T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. 1967. xv, [1 blank], 335pp. Illustrated with many black & white reproductions of photographs. Original red cloth, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a very good wrapper.
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RAILWAY AND OTHER STEAMERS.
Prescot.T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. 1968. xii, 432pp. Illustrated with many black & white reproductions of photographs. Original blue cloth, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. Second edition. A fine copy in a like unprice-clipped wrapper.
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RAILWAY MAP. No. 1 1936.
1936. 154 x 230 mm. The reverse having a diagram of the interchange stations of the central area of the London Underground. A very good copy.
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