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Railways for Pleasure: The Complete Guide to Steam and Scenic Lines in Great Britain and Ireland

Jones, Kenneth Westcott: · 1980

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1980 1st. ed. large format HBK + D/W. 160pp. + colour title page + colour and b/w plates and maps throughout. Jacket torn head spine. Book scuffed foot spine. O/w G+/G.

Great Trains: Sequel to History of Railways Parts 1, 3 and 11

Allen, G. Freeman: · 0

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: New English Library, no date Weekly periodical, 24 issues in total. Each issue has 20 pages, paginated sequentially. Fully illustrated. The odd tear and crease, a good reading set. See Stock # 9211 for complete set of 48 issues of History of Railways.

Veterans in Steam

Garratt, Colin: · 1983

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Poole: Blandford Press, 1983 2nd. imp. large format HBK + D/W. Index 160pp. + colour plates throughout. Contains a selection of steam locomotives from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Syria. VG/VG.

World Shipping

Hardy, A.C.: · 1941

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: Penguin, 1941 1st. ed. thus landscape PBK. No. S88 Red/Black pictorial cover. 224pp. + b/w illustrations and maps throughout. Small splits head/foot spine, o/w good copy.

Nautilia kai Nautikoi Hupologismoi (1918)

Chors and Palle: · 1920

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Athens: M. Mantzebelake and E. Chalkiopoulou, 1920 1st. ed. large format HBK, grey cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover with shield and anchor. In Greek, with bibliography in Roman letters. 383pp. + 2 pull-out charts/tables REPs. Covers grubby, leading edge fron...

Little Ship Navigation

Rantzen, M.J.: · 1964

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1964 4th. imp. HBK + D/W. Illustrated by M.A. Moffat. Index 196pp. + 7 b/w plates + diagrams/charts. Jacket torn and chipped. Pull-out chart at end of book largely torn out.

The Rapid Transit Railways of the World

Howson, Henry F.: · 1971

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Allen & Unwin, 1971 Prepublication proof copy + D/W, slightly scuffed at top edge. O/w G+/G+. 183 pp. + 40 illustrations (list not paginated).

All Clear Aft: Episodes at Sea

----: · 1936

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

London: Cassell, 1936 1st. ed. HBK. Covers soiled and grubby, lettering on spine dull. Page browning, stains FEP/REP. O/w fair reading copy. 245 pp. Illustrations by Charles Grave. Foreword by Winston Churchill.

Narrow Boats

Rice, Peter: · 1976

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Cambridge: Dinosaur Publication for the National Trust, 1976 1st. ed. PBK unpaginated with colour sketches throughout and one map. Cover corners slightly creased, o/w G.

Famous Railway Engines of the World

----: · 1961

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Percival Marshall & Co., no date (1961) 1st. ed. landscape PBK. 33pp. + b/w plates of 17 steam engines throughout.. Covers little soiled and creased, o/w G.

Everyone's Book of Trains

Haresnape, Brian: · 1981

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Hamlyn, 1981 1st. ed. large format HBK, printed boards, for W.H. Smith. 80pp. + colour photographs throughout. G+.

High Speed Trains: Fast Tracks to the Future

Whitelegg, John et al.: · 1993

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Hawes: Leading Edge Press, 1993 1st. ed. PBK, card covers. Index 239pp. + b/w photographs and diagrams. Good copy.

The Great Planes

Gilbert, James: · 1970

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Hamlyn, 1970 1st. ed. large format HBK + d/w. Index 251pp. + colour and b/w photographs throughout. Jacket chipped and torn foot spine and foot front flap fold, some minor wear spine and flap folds, o/w VG/G.