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RAILWAYS OF LONDON. 1927. Cover title: MAP OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF LONDON. What to See and How to Travel.
1927. Folding pocket map. Unfolded: 447 x 365 mm. Folded: 151 x 75mm. Unfolded one side bears a full-colour map with calligraphic titles. A very good example.
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SHIPBUILDERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY.
Newton Abbot.David & Charles. 1971. 336pp. Original boards, gilt. Original price-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. Black and white photographs throughout. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper. First edition.
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SOUTH COAST PLEASURE STEAMERS.
Prescot.T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. 1962. xi, 180pp. Original red board binding, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Black and white photographs throughout, including frontispiece. A fine copy in a wrapper that is slightly creased at the top edge.
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SUPPLEMENTS TO TRAFFIC CIRCULARS 1948 – 50.
London Transport, 1948/50. A bound volume of 31 Supplements concerning the tube network, many with folding plans, etc. Bound in cloth gilt. Some browning to the fore-edges; else very good.
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THE AIR ANNUAL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1932-3.
London.Gale & Polden Ltd. [1932]. xlvii adverts, plus 714pp. Colour frontispiece and many black & white photographs and drawings throughout. Original publisher's cloth gilt. 25x 18cms. Front hinge cracked, and boards a little worn to upper front corner, and spine edges. Some light bumping to corners and head and heel of spine, with minor spotting to endpapers; else, a very good copy
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THE AUSTIN 1905-1952.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 298 pages. Illustrated. Original red cloth gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust-wrapper a little worn; ele a very good copy, without inscriptions.
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THE CRUISE OF THE ROVER CARAVAN
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1896. viii, (1), 2 - 311, 32pp cat'. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five other full-page plates, plus some illustrations and diagrams within the text. Original pictorial cloth gilt. a.e.g. Octavo. First edition. Stamped on verso of front free endpaper: 'With Publisher's Compliments.' Front and rear hinges just cracked; binding a little rubbed at spine and corners; just a little shaken; else a very good copy of this scarce title.The books has chapters on the construction of a caravan.
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THE HIGHWAY AND ITS VEHICLES.
London.The Studio Limited. 1926. [i-iv] v-xvi 1- 40pp. illustrated by 131 plates to rear. Octavo. Limited Edition no: 181 of 1250 copies. Light green buckram, gilt; bevelled edges. t.e.g. Pictorial endpapers. Book plate; minor bumping to head and heel of spine, and some slight wear to corners. Else, an excellent copy. Cahill 91.
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THE LICENSED VEHICLE TRADES RECORD. A Journal devoted to the Interests of the Cab, 'Bus, Tram and Commercial Industries. The official organ of the London and Provincial Union of Licensed Vehicle Workers. The official organ of the Owner-Drivers' Branch of the L.P.U.L.V.W. and Small Owners' Societies.
London.Licensed Vehicles Trades Record. 1918. Vol vi. 24 issues from no: 117-141. Black pebbled cloth gilt. Interior has some browning and spotting, boards a little rubbed and grubby, with some small splitting to rear spine edge; else, a very good copy.
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THE MOTOR VEHICLE A Descriptive Text-Book of Chassis Construction for Students, Draughtsmen and Owner-Driver. Third edition.
London: The Automobile Engineer. Iliffe & Sons Ltd, No date [1941]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 492 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, gilt. Original printed dust-wrapper. Octavo. Some light occasional browning; dust-wrapper a little worn & chipped; else very good.
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THE PACKARD 1942-1962.
London: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 219 pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Few leaves little creased in blank margin; ownership details on fixed endpaper; else a very good copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote. info@davidmilesbooks.com
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THE RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Statistically considered, in relation to their extent, capital, amalgamations, debentures, financial position, acts of Parliament by which regulated, creation and appropriation of shares, calls, dividends, and various other minor particulars; Concisely arranged from solely authentic Documents; together with the railway accounts, rendered upon a uniform plan.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1849. xii, 733, 106, [1] pages. Folding summary extra to pagination. Bound in full calf gilt; black label. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate removed from front fixed endpaper; acquisition number of blank verso of title; else a fine fresh copy in a handsome binding that has some lightly uneven fading on rear panel where it has been stood against a shorter book..
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THE ROAD TRANSPORT ENGINEER.
London: Temple Press Limited, 1957. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 195 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth-backed boards. Printed dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust-wrapper. a little rubbed and worn, with one short tear; else a very good copy.
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THE VAUXHALL MOTORIST. June 1939. Vol 6. No. 8. Price Fourpence.
1939. Pages 325 – 376, as issued. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. 4to.Small tape repairs to rear & front wrappers; old vertical crease-marks to front wrapper; else very good.
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THE WALLSEND SLIPWAY & ENGINEERING CO. LTD 1871 - 1929.
Wallsend-on-Tyne.Self. (1929.). Oblong 48pp. promotional brochure. Illustrated throughout with photographs of ship construction and the ships themselves. Original pictorial embossed wrappers with ribbon ties. An excellent copy.Includes photographs of the R. M. S. Mauretania, and many ships of the Royal Navy.
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TRACKWORK. Imperial. 1924. H.
Sheffield: Edgar Allen & Co., Ltd, 1924. 126 pages, plus blank pages of graph paper. Original green cloth. All edges gilt. 173 x 120 mm. A fine copy.
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TRAINS AND TRACTORS. Drawn, painted and rhymed by Hamilton Ellis.
London: George Allen & Unwin Limited, 1957. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 30, [2] pages. Illustrated with colour plates and black & white vignettes. Original red cloth; pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. Oblong: 12.2 x 19.4cm. First edition. Small rub on wrapper; else a fine copy.
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UNDERGROUND. Metropolitan District Railway. London Electric Railway. City and South London Railway. Central London Railway. INDEX TO THE TRAFFIC NOTICES Nos. 1/22 – 52/22. January to December, 1922 inclusive.
London: 1922. 494 pages, followed by 10 leaves, printed on one side only, of Failure Bulletins. Bound in cloth gilt. Binding a little worn; 2 library stamps have been scribbled over; fore-edges browned; else very good.
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WEST HIGHLAND STEAMERS, Third edition.
Prescot.T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. 1967. xi, 204pp. Colour frontispiece, and illustrated throughout with 69 black & white reproductions of photographs. Original red boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. Third edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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