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Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone from Gibraltar to New York in 142 days; The Road to Timbuctoo (part III) - readers who enjoyed 'Three Asses in the Pyrenees" will find this narrative even more amusing; How "Mac" Won His Wife - a New Zealander abducts and marries a beautiful girl - with revengeful natives in pursuit; In Search of Sea-Monsters (part V) - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out in 1921 on an expedition to the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and caught multiple world-record-sized fish - article with photos; Zulliver's Travels - an ill-fated auto trip to California; Snapshots in China - great photos; Unknown Peru (part IV) - travel and adventure in the Andes - article with photos; Anstruther Gets a Job - an unemployed engineer in South Africa meets the promoter of a mine; The Two Strangers - an interesting sequel to "A Bunch of Keys" which appeared in the December 1923 issue; Great one-page illustrated General Electric locomotive ad speaks of the Mexican Railway between Orizaba and Esperanza where 10 electric locomotives will replace 25 steam locomotives; and more. Covers loose as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and numerous photographs in the text; coloured photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Ottley 18466
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked red cloth boards and the tiniest of bumps to corners. 144pp. How to create realistic model railways layouts and accessories.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper corners and minor traces of storage. 164pp. The author provides a detailed study of the evolution of each Atlantic design, the variations which were made in later experiments, details of outstanding performance by each 4-4-2 type and tables of their numbers, building dates and leading dimensions.
214 pages. Duo-tang binding. Oblong 22 x 11 cm. Appears to be a 1947 revision of the 1945 first edition. Crammed full of detailed specifications, tables and diagrams. Contents moderately toned with age. Prior owner's details inside teale front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this marvelous steam-age Canadian locomotive reference. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and tables in the text; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Ottley, 12300.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, trace of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Jacket is fully protected in a removable plastic sleeve. 112pp. The story of the Jubilee class of 4-6-0 locomotives built for secondary express passenger trains for the London Midland Scottish Region.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with very slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp. A 1978 reprint of a Clayton & Shuttleworth Ltd of Lincoln illustrated catalogue from around 1910 with photographs and drawings and technical information for their range of road locomotives including traction engines, road rollers, wagons, agricultural locomtives, scarifier, crane, sleeping van etc. Clayton & Shuttleworth were one of the top firms for these products in the country. Undated with a photo of their exhibit at the Grand Prix Paris of 1900. Extremely scarce.
Features: Pacific Coast Company Expends Vast Sums of Money Yearly; New Rules for Use of Pass; Commercial Club of Seattle hosts Gifford Pinchot, the man responsible for Alaska's strangling and the lull in Seattle's commercial advancement; Annual Report of the Great Northern Railway Co.; Canadian Northern lets contract for ten steel bridges between Cisco and Kamloops; O.W.R. & N. to Extend Line from North Yakima to Coast; Electric Locomotives That Will Tow Vessels Through Panama Canal - article with sideview cutaway diagram; Atlantic and Pacific Transport Company News; Great Interest in Contract to carriage mail between the U.S. coasts via the Panama Canal; What the Port Commission Has Done and Is Doing - article with illustration of the American Hawaiian steamer Honolulan; Many Contracts for the Moran Company; American Capital to Construct Big Coaling Plants Along Panama Canal; Fine Steamer the Kilauea - article with illustration; Com. Tillman Defends Alaska Lighthouses; Marine Insurance and Shipping Law Review; Full Court Decision re. Santa Rosa Stranding; Pacific Coast Casualties; An Industry That Prospers Here - Seattle Paint Co. - article with detailed photo inside their plant where Ironite Deck and Floor Paints are made; Extensive Repairs to S.S. AL-KI; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Coverfold mostly open, otherwise average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Magazine of the Bluebell Railway with numerous photographs, much information. A little dogeared with creases to page edges and light wear down spine.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12000.
8vo., with plates (a number double-page), and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 2835, 4052 (recording the first edition of 1893).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates, illustrations in the text and large folding chart on japon; cloth (green/black respectively), backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 10561.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and drawings in the text, small neat signature on title; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12284.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 7338.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (the majoity full-page); pictorial boards, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Ottley 15847.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 16pp of diagrammatic route guide, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and occasional spotting; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, red top, neatly recased, a very good, firm copy. Recalling the heady days of LMS immediately before WWII, Laurie Earl's minute-by-minute account of a day on the footplate on the London-Carlisle run has long been recognised as a railway classic. Ottley 4196, 6835.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 12571.
73p. Paperback Good condition, front cover stained
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth, gilt back, upper board lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Ottley, 7858.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1st edition, hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/VG (price clipped). 21796. eng
Covers show light wear only Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with no blemishes. Heavily photo illustrated in B&W, mechanical drawings, electrical diagrams, tables, charts. 147 pages, large format. Contents include Work of early pioneer and inventors, Locomotivs developed between 1880 and 1910, Locomotives for main lines built between 1910 & 1935, Main line electrifications after 1935, Development of the electric locomtove and its components, etc.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 193pp. Beginning with the lead up to the Rainhill Trials, this detailed study describes the world's first railway and how it developed over 150 years.
