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1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/Fine. 12603. eng
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
124p. illus Book
50 pages. Features/Articles: Ben Hur's chariot set the wheel base gauge for today's railroads; Canadian National Exhibits and Displays; Alberta's Hot Spot - The New Oil Fields near Edmonton, Leduc, Woodbend and Redwater; Canadian Nationial Telegraphs Blaze New Northern Trail - modern service makes the whole world neighbors of Red and Pickle Lake areas; The Cornerstone of a Community - The C.N.R. in Cornwall; An Approach to the Problem of Industrial Plant Location; Knowledge Pays Traffic Dividends; A.J. Lomas Named Vice-President Central Region; G.T.W. "Crop" Train set for mercy trip; New Railway Quarters in Victoria; Staff Changes; Around the Departments; Traffic; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. A sound copy. Book
9 issues from 1991 including the following months: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics featured include: Cayman Islands; Port Hardy, B.C. Dolphins; Wreck of the A.W. Perry - Nova Scotia; Kingston and Killarney Shipwrecks; The Elusive Wrymouth; Barkley Sound, God's Pocket, Campbell River; Caribbean ABCs; Blackfish Sound; Wreck of the Emperor; Tropical Fish - in the Maritimes?; Indonesia - Exotic Diving; Yap, Saba, Catalina Island; Sunshine Coast, B.C.; Wreck of the Cornwall; Gulf Stream - Bahamas and Florida; Gargantua Harbour Wreck- Lake Superior; East Coast Anemone; Kona, Palau, CoCo View; Sidney, B.C.; St. Lawrence; Moon Jelly; Six Gill Sharks; Diving naturalist - temperate vs. tropical; B.C's Race Rocks; Diving with the RCMP - Search and Rescue; The US Virgin Islands; Sinking the G.B Church - New Canadian Artificial Reef; The Sea Cucumber; Construction Diving; Emeral Bay - wreck dive in Alberta; Panama; Thunder Bay; The Solomon Islands - WWII remnants; Diamond Knot - West Coast Wreck; Indonesia; Beluga Encounter off Cape Breton; Nudibranchs. Moderate wear. Sound copies. Book
Features: Small accomplishments - the young and the rest of us; 1995 Tour Album - a few photos on our trek through Cornwall, London, Birmingham and more!; A Glass Act - Ferenc Albert's glass blowing talent; Moving Day - packing up the miniatures is no small feat!; German Schneegass Miniatures - the first of a new series about old miniatures; Show Shopping - Philadelphia finds!; Food for Thought - Lesley Burgess' toothsome tidbits are as British as she is; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The LNER B1 4-6-0s in Retrospect; Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in South Africa; Past, Present and Future at Yieldingtree; Two Miles a Minute - by steam - LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall; Light Railway Timetables 1968; Around Britain's Light Railways; End of Steam to Buxton; End of BR's Observation Cars; and more. Moderate wear. Writing on front cover and throughout contents. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Recorders' Errors or Oversights? - Locomotive running past and present - No. 245; The Eleventh Hour of Steam - 1; The Preservation Bubble; First of the SDJR 2-8-0s; Cornwall to Caithness; Railway Club Photographic Competition; East European Journey; To Switzerland - for Steam (and so much else); The Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway; The Railways of Bord Na Mona; Annual Report on Railway Accidents; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Illustration Features: Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall; The Marvel of Three Years - article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; King George visits Vimy where Canada won glory; Fragments of fighting from four fronts; One the Marne Battlefield - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Italy sweeps Austria from the Adriatic Sea; Canadians enter Avion through fire and blood; Using bullet-proof shields; Ready for all emergencies afloat; The Long Arm of the Navy - it's wonderful to work in the seven seas (article by Percival Hislam); Miss Matilda of 'The Scrubbs' - article by Harold Ashton; Allied Artillery of Assault - 'Tanks' in action; Greece girds on her sword for war; Keeping Fit in the Navy - the Friendsly boxing bout; The Seaforth Highlanders - article with photo of officers. Above-average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
58 pages. Features: Narrow-Gauge Summer - nice photos; Railroading on Chesapeake Bay - Pennsylvania Railroad's saltwater fleet serves Norfolk and provides an alternate north-south route along the Atlantic Seaboard - article with photos; Third Morning Delivery - U.S. and Canadian Roads cooperate in hauling perishable and manifest freight the long way 'round from Chicago to the East - long article with map and photos; Photo Section; Nice centerfold photo of the Cornwall Railroad of 1895 - the American Standard locomotive Penryn is standing at the Lebanon, Pa. station; $7.50 to L.A. - That's the price Southern Pacific charges to ride the 470 miles from San Francisco - long article with photos; Last Train from Carson City - Virginia & Truckee closes its books - Photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
44p. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Small 4to. Original pictorial wraps. Nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_13 BX6
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
8vo., with plates; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding map coloured in outline, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition. Brockett, 50140; Spielmann & Jerrold 20.
8vo., with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and folding map coloured in outline, small neat signature on front free endpaper, small stain on half-title; original series binding of dark blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, one corner bruised, lower hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end. First published in 1897. Brockett, 50140; Spielmann & Jerrold 20 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout and a coloured plate of house insignia; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes detailed fleet index
pp. vi, 122. Illustrated with photographs. Tall 8vo. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Includes interviews with members of the community. PA PAMPH 20_14 BX5
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, small scuff marks on cover; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. The publication of this important fourteenth-century MS was shared between the Devon and Cornwall Record Society and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Lydford was a successful canon lawyer whose text covers the officiality of Winchester, Oxford and Exeter. Brockett 18910.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 10 full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The author was Councillor and Archivist of the Borough of Liskeard.
[2],361-382pp., presentation inscription from the author, from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
Drop-head title, 13,[1]pp., 2 folding table, from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
Drop-head title, 14pp., 1 folding table, from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 91 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, unusually clean copy. THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK IN PEVSNER'S MONUMENTAL SERIES. Published as Penguin BE1, this unassuming volume marked the beginning of the most important architectural survey of the twentieth century. The work was originally published without a dustwrapper which first appeared with later issues of 1952-3. BE1; Cherry PC1. PJ1.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 91 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text,neat signature on front free endpaper; original printed wrappers, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK IN PEVSNER'S MONUMENTAL SERIES. Published as Penguin BE1, this unassuming volume marked the beginning of the most popular architectural survey of the twentieth century. VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUSTWRAPPER (not issued until 1954). Buildings of England 1; Cherry PC1, PJ1.
