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No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with some traces of storage. 327pp. Whilst tram services began slowly in the early 19th century, they did not peak until around 1920 in Britain and had gone almost completely by 1960. This study gives a detailed account of the intervening years. Illustrated.
Book and jacket in mint condition. Unpaginated ca. 160pp. Heralded as the finest record of British Tramways ever published, this book recognises the depth and content of Henry Priestley's photography in conjunction with Crich Tramway Museum. 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.
4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, green top, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of a standard reference.
Pages 253-296. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; Senator William E. Borah - an interview; The highest path in New England - a tramping trip along the Range Walk - article with great photos; Three opinions on the legislature of 1923 - the Democratic viewpoint, the Republican viewpoint, an Independent viewpoint; Along came Mary Ann - how home demonstration work helps a community - article with nice photos; The Northeastern Forest Experiment Station; An Anthology of One Poem Poets; The Bunga Road - an exciting controversy at Landaff; Guernseys that Pay - some champions at the Rockingham Farm; Ships (poem); How the House was Adjourned; Books of New Hampshire Interest; The Editor Stops to Talk; Current Opinion in New Hampshire; New Hampshire Necrology. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 301-346. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; As the road unrolls - some impressions of an early summer motor trip - feature article with great photos; Future policies of the Republican Party - Three New Hampshire leaders analyze the situation - a revival of party loyalty wanted, A party program, a forward-looking party; Polar caves - short article with photos; The day old chick industry in New Hampshire; The Road to Lariat; Three women who lead New Hampshire club work - Mrs. Clara Fellows, Mrs. G.E. Speare and Mrs. George H. Morris; An anthology of one poem poets; Gould Hill Farm - How a fine apple orchard grew from small beginnings - article with great photos; A gold mine in Jerseys - George M. Putnam's Herd of Champions - great article with photos; New Hampshire Necrology; Great full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. showing their No. 11 mill - the largest textile manufacturing plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; and more. Average wear. External soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 189-244. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A Norwegian Road - interesting article with great photos from Norway; A Story of Old New England; The causes of the decrease of birds; The Vaughans - A California Idyl (continued); Thomas Leavitt and his artist friend, James Akin; Life on the Magalloway; The Gipsy Maiden's Song (poem); Nice photo ad for the Boston and Maine Railroad; New Hampshire Necrology. Sunning to front cover. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 211-242. Features: New Hampshire Industries and Their Builders - The Rockwell Clough Company - article with one-page photo portrait of W. Rockwell Clough; The City of Geneva and John Calvin, 1509-1909; Pembroke Academy; Obituaries for Hon. John Noble, Mary E. Blair, Ellen Porter Champion, Mrs. James W. Henderson, Adelaide Cilley Waldron, M'Clure, David, Thomas S. Ellis, and Michael M. Stevens; Poems; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the Grand Trunk Railway System features the tourist route through Canada, with illustration of Hotel Wawa, Lake of Bays, "Highlands of Ontario"; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 135-166. Features: Col. John H. Bartlett - article with one-page photo portriat of Col. Bartlett; Kimball Union Academy - photo-illustrated article explains the part a New Hampshire academy is playing in the movement for better rural conditions; Old First Church in Tamworth and its Early Ministers; Reminiscences of Old Durham; The Real Old North Church - A Landmark of the Republic; Robert L. Smiley - a tribute of a friend; Obituaries for Hon. Edward H. Sturtevant, Rev. Josiah H. Hooper, Rodney M. Stimson, Christopher C. Shaw, Leonard C. Brickett, Franklin Pierce, Hon. Frank O. Briggs; Poems; Lovely illustrated back cover ad by the Central Vermont Railway/Grand Trunk System Great Vacation Route, with illustration of a vista of Canada's Capital, Otttawa and the Chateau Laurier Hotel; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 278-346. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: The main street of the ocean; May song; New Hampshire horses; Yesterday; The administration of a great department in the city of Boston; The pianist; Some passing thoughts on literature; The fairy king; Lisbon, N.H.; Sweet May; The Legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse - Chapter 21; Fair Ormond; The Society of Colonial Wars in New Hampshire; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology; Nice full-page photo of the Riverside Stock Farm, Newport, N.H. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
Pages 513-561. Black and white photos. Features: Full-page photo of William Sidney Rossiter; Is New Hampshire completed? - President Hetzel's tribute to Mr. Rossiter; Great photos of typical scenes at local fairs - most involving animals; A controversy on vaccination - the pros and cons; How the farm community of Epson turned the tide - article with photos; The farm bureau movement; Making needles at Hill - Frank R. Woodward and the story of an indomitable spirit; A fraction of a second - interesting article on auto accidents - with photos; An anthology of one poem poets; Building for the future - the Londonderry Road - article with great photos; The kitchen as a workshop; Romance in the life of John Greenleaf Whittier; the Wo'thless feller; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked bright red glossy boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight scratching around lower rear edge. 192pp. A lavish study of six colorful decades of convertibles that capture the romance of top-down motoring in America from 1927 onwards. Extremely well illustrated in colour.
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
48 pages. Circa early 1960s. Includes music and lyrics to: Call Me Irresponsible; (The) First Night of the Full Moon; I Get Along Without You Very Well; King of the Road; Lollipops and Roses; Love Letters; Love with the Proper Stranger; Lush Life; (The) Mood I'm In; Moonlight Becomes You; (The) Race is On; This Love of Mine; We'll Be Together Again; Where Love Has Gone; Wives and Lovers. Average wear. Binding sound. Original bookseller's ink stamp upon table of contents. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nostalgic compilation of classic hits. Book
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The dustwrapper was designed by David Jones.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the tet, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth, uncut, uper hinge cracked but binding perfectly sound, an unusually bright, clean copy.
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 27pp. Brief descriptions of the cars to be found in the museum which are from the collection of John Haynes, founder of Haynes Publishers.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, enclosed tear to one page (otherwise fine) and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Coloured photographs (mostly full-page) of British trams with lengthy captions.
Very scarce with dust jacket. No added marks or inscriptions. Last 2 pages marked, maybe old damp. All remaining pages clean, crisp and in very good condition. Fading to bottom front corner of front board. Dusty top edge. Jacket almost complete but torn and well scuffed. 248pp. An authoritative and fascinating study of the world-wide development of the highways and the vehicles that use them and how the motor car became supreme.
No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked front cover, slight shading to rear and no bumping to corners. 32pp. An illustrated study of the horse bus from the 19th century into the early 20th.
264 pages. Reprint of the 1915 first edition. All twenty-nine full-page black and white plates present. Lacking both maps. "The purpose of this book is chiefly to tell of the country along the Hudson Bay Railway now under construction, of Hudson Bay, the Mediterranean Sea of North America, and of the resources to be found in Manitoba's new territory, including the great inland sea on which it border." - from Preface. Heavy wear to reddish-brown cloth library binding. Former library copy with usual markings. No dust jacket. A worthy reading copy. Book
48 Pages. Features: Dominion ammunition ad inside front cover; Full-page Sun Life Assurance ad; List of open seasons for game, 1931-1932; Sky Trails Above the Rockies - Hal Roach followed route of pioneer fur traders (along with Kenneth Allen - guide, Clair B. Brunson, and Harvey Crate - guide; The Perils of Woods Travel - by Grey Owl; Above the Timber Line - unusual animal, bird and tree life; Mowitch to the Minute - a true story of the hunt - why the big ones always get away, by Hamilton M. Laing; ; The Practice of Tree Surgery - article with great photos; The Plant as Artist and Architect; From Dwelling Place to Home - Herman Larsen, a prairie farmer and tree lover, shows how trees make home prosperous and beautiful; New Forests that Follow Fires; Forest Fires in 1930; Logging on the Pacific Coast - How B.C. Giant Timbers are Harvested - article with photos, by James Kay; Fenders Best Quality Spruce - a new use for spruce left following pulpwood operations; Little Puzzlements in Conservation, by Ozark Ripley; Half-page ad for the Waterous Twin Engine Feed for portable and small sawmills; Davey Tree Surgeons ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note: missing pages 19-22. Book
Pages: 801-844. Features: Great colour ad inside front cover for British Motor Corporation (BMC) features illustration of elephant pulling massive log; Nice one-page Rover car ad; Cover photo of the Queen and her husband arriving at Ascot on Royal Hunt Cup Day; Dramatic cricket photos - test match between England and Australia; Review of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards on parade at Windsor; Photos of ten personalities of the week, including Mr. Michael Arlen, Golda Myerson, Thomas J. Watson, and Professor James J. Guest; Swiss Everest climbers; Royal Polo; Churchill and Truman; King Faisal of Iraq; Seven illustrations of Britain's first 'motors only' road - the preston by-pass; Nice two-page photo montage of seeded tennis players for the Wimbledon singles titles; One page with three large photos of a gathering of heroes - scenes from the Queen's review of holders of the Victoria Cross (V.C.); Magnificent centerfold photo of the Queen arriving in horse-drawn carriage at London's Hyde Park to review 300 holders of the Victoria Cross; Photos from the Troodos Mountains 'Sweep' in Cyprus - terrorists and a deadly fire; Photos of Krushchev and Tito; The vanished crown of Mary of Modena - a counterfeit of the seventeenth century found under a royal diadem of the eighteenth; Mrs. Nasser votes in Egypt; Photos from East Germany - Russina withdrawals; Photo of fourteen Canadian Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients on their arrival at Portsmouth; Arrival of 14 Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; Arrival of 10 Indian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; One-page ad for Wolseley cars; Nice colour-photo ad inside back cover for Ilford colour film features Stonehenge and a Marilyn Monroe look-alike; Nice colour ad on back page for Midland Bank Gift Cheques; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 1069-1112. Features: Wonderful colour-illustrated Guinness ad inside front cover features Mad Hatter lunch party; Nice one-page ad for Benson & Hedges shows scene aboard a passenger aircraft; Nice one-page Martini ad; Photo finish at the Royal Hunt Cup between Chivalry and King of Tudors; How the photo-finish camera works; Photos of the Queen at Ascot on the final day of the meeting; Revolutionary uprising and rebel invasion in Guatemala - photos of its capital and rival leaders, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas; Men's singles battle at Wimbledon Centre Court between J. Drobny and J. Arkinstall; Wonderful two-page photo montage of Male and Female competitors at Wimbledon, including number one seeds T. Trabert and Miss M. Connolly; Review of "V-2" by Walter Dornberger - with photos of German rockets; One-page photo portrait of Billy Graham; Repairing the Sir John Dill Memorial in Washington; The Westland Sikorsky S-55 six-passenger helicopter - photos and cutaway drawings; Two-page photo of the opening of the Royal Ascot Meeting with the Queen being driven down the course in open landau; Royal Photos at Ascot; Blundell's - a Great English Public School; Works by prehistoric animal artists newly discovered in the 'red desert' of southern Tripolitania; Photos of personalities of the week, including King Saud of Saudi Arabia with King Hussein in Jordan, Dr. Nkrumah of the Gold Coast, Miss D.S. Leather, and the Duke of Kent's car accident; Australian J.M. Landy beats Roger Bannister's recent record with a time of 3 mins, 58 seconds in the mile run; Photo of the American Carrier "Bennington" en route to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs after an on-board explosion killed 102; First international sidecar event in the Manx T.T. motorcycle race since 1925 - won by Eric Oliver on a Norton; Nice one-page ad for the Daimler Conquest Saloon; Colour ad for Firestone Tyres inside back cover; Nice colour-photo ad on back cover for B.O.A.C. shows luxury dining in flight aboard a Stratocruiser; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
