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Features: Observing the Working Timetable; Leicester - a celebrated Great Central Locomotive Depot - 2; Footplating - Continental Style; Blaenau Ffestiniog - Railway Junction; Looking Below the Surface; Cross-Country by the GC Route; North Yorkshireman; Unbuilt Lines; Tyler Hill Tunnel, Canterbury; LSWR Adams X2 class 4-4-0s; LCDR Photographs problem summed up; Nineteenth Century Footbridge Preserved; Our Transport Heritage - a paper by Sir Peter Allen to the Royal Society of the Arts; A Stockton & Darlington Shed Scene; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Kings Cross - Cleethorpes Expresses; To Rail 150 (photos); North Road Museum; Locomotives of 50 Years ago - 2; The Last Years of the LNER - 2; Woodhams at Barry in Retrospect - second in the roll of famous scrapyards only to the Steptoe establishment; South African Railways; Springboard in the Savoy; A Royal Event; New Trains for Piccadilly Line; Motive Power Miscellany; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: When the Mediterranean went dry; Clowns of the Galapagos; Discovery of the Admiral's flagship; The Stars at Night; Full Circle for Vema; The Living Nautilus; 'Fingerprinting' Offending Tankers; One more Whale to Count; the road to Hokkaido; From Father Neptune's Stable. Sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: In the spirit of the Voyageurs - Two moderns paddle an old fur-trade route; The great gopher war - building a prairie tradition on pest control; The architect and the lady - The Rattenbury affair; Portraits of a first family of New France; Volunteers on guard for thee in the 18th century; Steamboat follies - the pleasures and perils of crossing Lake Simcoe. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
72 pages. Features: The Racing Amilcars - interesting illustrated article, including great colour photos; BMW Turbo - road impressions; Early Motoring Experiences in 1902, by W. Gulliver; Re-Vitalized Astons; Juan Manuel Fangio; C Type Jaguar to Le Mans - including fantastic colour centerfold photo; The hazards of rust; The history of some Squire cars; Mini Manual - Triumph TR4 1961/65; History of the Post War Touring car; The Magic Magnette - son of the Humbug; Classic of the month - Aston Martin Project 212; and more. Average wear. Minor moisture exposure to top edge. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Triumph TR6 Road Test; Le Mans MGA - Jonathan Wood recounts entries at Sarthe in 1959, 1960, and 1961; Studebaker Avanti; A Magnificent Seven; Classic Saloon Racing; Gull Wing Glamour; Project 212 - Full Bore - wonderful colour centerfold; CC is for Citroen Cloverleaf; Mike Hawthorn Feature; Rewiring Jonathan Woods' MGA; Mini Manual - Austin-Healey Sprite Mk II; History of the Post War Touring Car - Part 2; Classic of the Month - Austin-Healey '100'; and more. Average wear. Some moisture exposure to top edge. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
70 pages. Features: Traumatic tumbler tells all; The high risk road to treasure; how to pick a treasure-hunting buddy; The pearls of Concho - it's true, there is a pearl rush in Texas; Safe in doses large or small - a Rhode Island dump yields bottles; Don't give up - there's treasure to be found; Placer mining in the Arizona desert; Coler Gulch gold; Getting more out of treasure hunting; A few words about geodes; if you like variety in your diggin's try New Hampshire; Some Kansas ghost towns; Warm spring treasure - a Montana TH'ing spot; Quartz and Feldspar crystals north of Mohave California; Relic hunting Louisiana. Average wear. Book
159 pages. Notes. Index. Black and white illustrations. "A history of Yonge Street. Long before the drone of sawmills, tollgates, stage coach travel, tarred roads, fast cars, subways, shopping malls and nude body-rub parlours, a dense and pathless forest reflected in the cool waters of Toronto Harbour." - from back cover. Bookplate upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice solid copy. Book
358 pages. In 1912, a 23-year-old mechanic with the Reo Motor Car Company of St. Catherines, Ontario set out in a 1912 Reo Special touring car with the English writer Thomas Wilby. There aim was to be the first to drive a car from the Atlantic to the Pacific entirely within Canada. A retired mechanic from Vancouver and the author recreated that historic trip 85 years later. Provides an account of both trips. An examination of the automobile and its effects on our cities and lives. A delightful travel and history guide to Canada as it is and was. Lovely giftable copy. Book
109 pages. Contents: The B.C. Party System in the 1952 and 1953 Provincial Elections; Water and Sanitiation Services in Vancouver - An Historical Perspective; The Road to Enfranchisement - Chinese and Japanese in British Columbia; The Forest and the Trees - Review Article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
36 pages. Songs include: It's a Wonderful Life; Once More we are Home Again; The Girls of Today; The Bambazoolian Way; Mulligan's Fair; The Call of the Open Road; You're the Fellow for me; It's a Beautiful Thing to go Nowhere; Sea Scouting is the Life for Me; Knocking at the Door for Mabel. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy of this nice vintage compilation. Book
306 pages including reference index and bibliography. "Presents as clearly and as concisely as possible those fundamental principles on which all achievement is based, in order that the person seeking success, may, by having a comprehensive chart of the road, more easily, quickly and surely attain his/her objectives." - from foreward. A very practical and helpful work. Front free endpaper removed, taking with it most of front hinge. Above average wear. Unmarked. While this is not the prettiest copy, it remains a valuable and uncommonguide to self-improvement, written during the pit of the Great Depression. Book
167 pages. Circa 1971. Contains dozens of fascinating black and white photographic reproductions. A historical look at the territory beyond Mount Garibaldi. Sections include: 1858-1864 The Douglas Route; Lillooet a Hundred Years Ago; The Squamish Trail; The Lillooet Indians; Homestead Recipes; Pemberton Valley Playground; and more. Prior owner's name and details upon decorated front flyleaf. Illustrated covers show average wear with minor spine lean. Book
297pages. A provocative, probing and personal expedition into your mind, heart and soul. Weave your way through this treasure trove of list ideas designed to reveal the vistas of your heart and soul. Soon, you'll find yourself on a colorful road through years of experiences, memories, desires, and wisdom. Clean and unmarked with minor wear to corners of boards. Excellent copy. Book
Undated but appears to be circa late 1950s. Approx. 18" x 33". Two-sided. Printed in red and blue. Covers from the Gulf Coast to the Canadian border and from Pittsburgh to Denver. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
Pages 78-111. Features: The 19th Carrier Air Group on the RCN's 1949 Spring Cruise; The Battle for a CPAL Transcontinental Air Route; The Curtiss HS-2L and the Beginnings of a National Air Force (part 1); Navy Tiger Moths; The Canadian Aviation Artists Association; Dan Reynolds - A Legend in Dawson City's Aviation History Looks to the Future; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
in-8, 76 pp., nombreuses photographies en noir, broche, couverture muette sous jaquette. VG - Bel exemplaire. [BU-1]
Mm 260x330 Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta originale, custodia in cartone editoriale, 285 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Bibliografia in chiusura. Condizione del libro: nuovo - brand new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
24x17. 158p. Fotogr. Ilstr.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In English and Turkish. 161, [3], 161 p., color ills. Eurasian Silk Road Universities Consortium (ESRUC) Proceedings. 3rd Eurasian Silk Road Universities Convention (ESRUC). Most successfull projects in your administration.= Avrasya Ipek Yolu Üniversiteler Birligi (ESRUC). Bildiriler. 3. Avrasya Ipek Yolu Üniversiteler Birligi Toplantisi. Yönetiminizi en basarili projeleri. 13-15 October; 2002, Erzurum, Turkey.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly marked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 260pp.. Genuine vintage edition of the official workshop manual of the Frog-eyed Sprite. Undated ca 1961. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 15 maps and diagrams in the text; broad-weave cloth, buckram back with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With small neat institutional stamp on front paste-down. This attractively produced work, published for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, is perhaps the scarcest of the author's studies of the history and development of the English road. Cahill 80.
2 leaves, sm. 8vo., from Bowen's 'Britannia Depicta', conjoined to form an overall sheet of 23.5cms x 18.5cms (9.25ins x 7.25ins), and containing a charming engraved strip-map of the road from Dartmouth (Devonshire) to Minehead (Somersetshire) in six sections with associated descriptive letter-press including arms of Dartmouth and Tiverton in cartouches, THE WHOLE FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, and eminently suitable for framing and display. Emanuel Bowen's 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd' first appeared in 1720 with Ogilby's strip-maps reduced to half the original scale. The work was immensely popular and was reissued many time as late as 1759. The road passes from Dartmouth through Newton Bushel, Exeter, Silverton, Tiverton, Bampton, Berry and Embercum to Minehead.
8vo., Third Edition, with large folding coloured map on cloth in pocket at front; original green limp cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
