Pirt, Keith R.,

KEITH PIRT COLOUR PORTFOLIO - PICTORIAL TRIBUTE.

Book Law Publications, Nottingham, 2007, 1st edn., 160pp, coloured photo ills. throughout,large landscape format (8.5 x 11 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial boards with matching dustwrapper, a selection of quality colour photographs (one per page) of large and small steam locomotives from all regions of British Railways, some 'on shed', others leaving or arriving at stations and yet more at speed in the countryside, with views of some of the early heavy diesels now also part of history, dustwrapper: light creasing to edges, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41200

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam diesel locomotives

Postma, Thijs,

FOKKER - AIRCRAFT BUILDERS TO THE WORLD (originally published as Fokker bouwer aan de wereldluchtvaart).

Jane's, London, 1980, 1st edn. UK, 160pp, half tone pictorial photo frontis, illustrated throughgout in coloured and half tone ills., maps, diagrams, line drawings and facsimiles, large format (12 x 9 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, history of one of the most innovative aircraft building companies that made its name worldwide during WW1, profusely illustrated in colour, half tone and line, and with facsimiles of contemporary documents, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36031

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport aviation aircraft fokker ww1 luftwaffe

Riley, R. C. and Waller, Peter,

THE POWER OF THE CASTLES.

Oxford Publishing Co., Hersham, 2003, 1st edn., 112pp, half tone photo pictorial half title nad double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8,5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, in the Power series, the development and operational history of the 'Castle' class locomotive, designed by Charles B. Collett shortly after he succeeded Churchward as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, a locomotive class which dominated GWR's express passenger services until the elimination of steam in the 1960's, a little bumped at lower cnrs., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips with a couple of short edge nicks, repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41201

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives castles collett gwr great western

Robbins, Michael,

THE RAILWAY AGE.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1965, 1st in imprint, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper by Germano Farcetti, an account of '.. the hectic heyday of the iron road, when speculators crashed, trains were kidnapped by rival companies and stations erupted in their Gothic splendour..', rubbed at extrems., sl. flaking to edges of spine, faint creasing to wrappers, edges browned, faint stain upper cnrs. of prelims., good plus,

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Book number: 29919

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: railways steam

Ross, David,

BRITISH STEAM RAILWAYS.

Parragon, Bath, 2003, reissue, 160pp, line drawings, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 8 inches approx.), laminated half tone photo pictorial boards with matching dustwrapper, printed in Dubai, re-issue of a title first published in 2002, a profusely illustrated history of the development of British steam railways from the earliest times to the mid 20th century and the last days of steam, including details of some of the narrow guage and private lines where steam still survives, faint bump upper tips, light diagonal crease to front free endpaper and prelims., dustwrapper: unpriced, faint creasing at upper tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41202

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives

Ross, David,

BRITISH STEAM RAILWAYS.

Parragon, Bath, 2005, reissue, 160pp, line drawings, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 8 inches approx.), laminated half tone photo pictorial boards with matching dustwrapper, printed in Malaysia, re-issue of a title first published in 2002, a profusely illustrated history of the development of British steam railways from the earliest times to the mid 20th century and the last days of steam, including details of some of the narrow guage and private lines where steam still survives, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41203

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives

Semmens, Peter,

GREAT WESTERN STEAM IN CLOSE-UP.

D. Bradford Barton, Truro, ND (copyright 1973, 1st edn., 95pp, [i] ads., half tone photo ills. throughout, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of over ninety half tone photographs of a wide range of mainly Great Western Railway locomotives and some rolling stock, edges alittle tanned, light foxing to endpapers, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, light foxing to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41205

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives great western gwr

Semmens, Peter,

A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - 3. WARTIME AND THE FINAL YEARS, 1939-48.

Guild Publishing, London, 1985, club edn., 102pp, half tone photo ills. and maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, rthird and final volume in the series history, covering the impact of WW2 on the railway, the damage to the locomotives, rolling stock and track, the extra miles of permanent way and the shortage of materials, the conversion of many locomotives to oil, more 'Castles' and the 'Halls' and 'Counties', and finally nationalisation, edges a little dusty, dustwrapper: faint foxing to flaps and reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41204

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomtives great western ww2

Smith, Gavin (compiled by),

THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

Tempus, Stroud, 2003, reprint, paperback, 128pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps and facsimiles in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), sepia photo pictorial wrappers, a collection of over 170 illustrations as a celebration of the personality of the Great Eastern Railway, a railway which grew out of ashes of some failed railway predecessors to become one of the greatest of passenger carrying lines in Britain, operating out of Liverpool Street and serving London and the Eastern Counties, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41206

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives great eastern railway region

Smith, Vian,

VIAN SMITH'S PARADE OF HORSES.

Longman, London, 1970, 1st edn., 140pp, frontis port and 8pp half tone photo ills., many in text line drawings by Michael Charlton, deep ochre cloth gilt, dustwrapper by Michael Charlton, the author's tribute to working horses, from the farm to the barge, the steeplechaser to the funeral pair, a book of personal memories and experiences, lightly bumped at spine ends, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed with sev. small creases and 1 edge tear, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 21807

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: horse west country

Smith, Peter,

WATERWAYS HERITAGE.

Luton Museum and Art Gallery, Luton, 1975, reprint, 80pp, folding map and 3 folding half tone ills., maps, diagrams, half tone and sepia ills. in text, large landscape format (10.5 x 15.5 inches approx.) with side stapled binding, pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of the inland waterways of Great Btitain, of the historical legisaltion that ensured that they were navigable and of their expansion with the development of the canals so that by the end of the 18th century an infrastructure of communication by waterways either existing or was planned and under contruction, using extracts from the many original sources held by Luton Museum and Art Gallery including accounts of the building of the canals, facsimiles of maps of routes, line drawings of vessels and construction sites, etc., forming a useful reference to the development of the British Waterways in its own right, a little rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, some marks to wrappers, light vertical crease through wrappers and text block, good plus,

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Book number: 42294

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport waterways canals barges

Stephenson, Brian,

LMS STEAM PORTRAIT.

Ian Allan, London, 1985, 1st edn., 128pp, photo pictorial double title, numerous in text half tone photo ills., untitled red cloth, col'd photo montage dustwrapper, the best illustrations from his earlier titles (LMS Abum numbers 2 and 3) together with new material, a brief text introduction and numerous captioned photographs of London, Midland and Scottish locomotives, dustwrapper: tiny closed nick upper edge lower panel, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28639

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: steam lms london midland scottish railways great britain

Stretton, John,

STEAM ON SHED.

Blandford Press, Polle, 1984, 1st edn., unpaginated [160pp], containing 240 photo plates many in colour, large format 10.5 x 8 inches, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, the product of some offical visits (and some unofficial!) to steam locomotive sheds all over Great Britain and a record of many of the locomotives found there in the 1960's, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28649

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: steam shed railway great britain

Taylor, John W. R.,

AIRCRAFT.

Hamlyn, London, ND (copyright 1971), paperback, 159pp, coloured pictorial title and numerous in text coloured ills. by Gerry Palmer, [i] ads., coloured pictorial wrappers, in the 'Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks' series, the story of flight by the editor of 'Jane's All the World's Aircraft', lightly rubbed at extrems., spine sun-darkened, very good,

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Book number: 35207

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport aviation

Thomas, David St. John and Whitehouse, Patrick,

A CENTURY AND A HALF OF SR150 THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2002, paperback, 208pp, maps, diagrams, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx., coloured photo pictorial wrappers, a celebration of 150 years of Southern Railway with many historical photographs, the smallest of the four great railway companies after Grouping but with the Golden Arrow Pullman and the through Night Ferry, Southern offered prestigious services as well as a major contribution to the war effort during WW2 and also presided over the world's largest suburban electrification system, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41207

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomtives sr150 southern railway region