Vaughan, Adrian
Tracks to Disaster
Hardcover and jacket. Page edges are slightly tanned; otherwise excellent. TS Used
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Nock, O. S.; Cooper, B. K.
Historic Railway Disasters
Hardcover - fourth edition - with a hint of wear to jacket, and sparse foxing on page block head. Pages are clean and text and images are clear. TS Used
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Steam Railway Magazine
The Inside Guide to the Steam Railways of Britain
2012 issue. Very good paperback. Several dog-eared page corners; interior appears clean and sound, with clear content throughout. TS Used
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Forge, Eric; Bowie, Gavin; Etc.
Built at Eastleigh: An Illustrated List of Steam Locomotives Built or Rebuilt 1910-1961
Staple-bound paperback in excellent condition. TS Used
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Premios Brunel Awards Madrid 1992
Paperback - bilingual in Spanish and English - in very good condition. Lower corners of front cover and early pages are very lightly bumped; otherwise excellent. TS Used
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Ball, M. G.
European Railway Atlas: Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Paperback in very good condition. Multilingual key/legend. Text and maps are clear. TS Used
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Morrison, Brian; Marsden, Colin J.
Britain's Railways by Night
Hardcover and jacket. Very good, with no notable faults. TS Used
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Marsden, Colin
35 Years of Main Line Diesel Traction
Hardcover and jacket. Very good throughout, with remains of label on jacket's front inner flap. Errata slip stuck to copyright page. Content is clear on sound, clean pages. TS Used
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Talbot, E.
A Pictorial Tribute to Crewe Works in the Age of Steam
Hardcover in laminated jacket, both lightly bumped at spine ends. Content is clear on clean, sound pages. (1988 printing.) TS Used
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McCarthy, Shane
Impressions of Steam
Hardcover and price-clipped jacket, both faintly worn. Marks from previous tape on jacket's inner flaps and on endpapers. Minor pen mark and small abrasion on FEP. The lightest of wear to two or three page corners. All text and images are clear. TS Used
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Huxtable, Nils
Steam Spirit
Staple-bound paperback. Remains of small label on rear; one or two instances of minor shelfwear only. A very good copy - text and colour images are clear. TS Used
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Huxtable, Nils
Steam Spirit
Staple-bound paperback. Remains of small label on rear; one or two instances of minor shelfwear; spine foot is lightly bumped. Text and colour images are clear. TS Used
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Davis, Milton A.; Roberts, Charles S.
B&O Salute
Staple-bound paperback. Remains of small label on front; one or two minor marks elsewhere. Light wear to corners of front cover and early pages. Content is clear throughout. Good to very good. TS Used
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Hardingham, Roger (ed.)
Celebrating 150 Years of the LSWR
Staple-bound paperback in very good condition throughout. TS Used
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McCormack, Kevin
The Heyday of the London Bus - 3
Hardcover (no jacket as published), printed boards, very good condition. A very clean copy. Nick to front board near spine head. Newspaper clipping about bus route numbers laid in. Pages are sound and clear. DP Used
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Kraemer-Johnson, Glyn; Bishop, John
Streets of Sussex
Hardcover (no jacket as published) printed boards, very good condition. A very clean copy. Boards are very clean and internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Kraemer-Johnson, Glyn; Bishop, John
Southdown Days
Hardcover (no jacket as published) printed boards, very good condition. A very clean copy. Boards are very clean. Minor mark on FEP. Pages are sound and clear. DP Used
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Piltz, Howard J.
The Heyday of the Trolley Bus
Hardcover (no jacket as published) printed boards, very good condition. Spine is a little cocked and nick to spine foot. One or two minor scuff marks to lower edge of rear board. Pages are clean and sound. DP Used
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McCormack, Kevin
The Heyday of the London Bus - 2
Hardcover (no jacket as published) printed boards, very good condition. A very clean copy. Boards are very clean and internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Reese, Terrence; Dormer, Albert
The Acol System Today
Hardcover. 1965 printing (originally 1961). Jacket is slightly marked and sunned; shelfworn, with a few nicks. A little wear to boards beneath, and at points on page block. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Webber, Roy
The County Cricket Championship: A History of the Competition from 1873 to the Present Day, with Each Season's Final Placings in Full, Team and Individual Playing Records, Etc.
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly marked and worn, with a few minor nicks. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Moore, Tim
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Paperback. Negligible wear to front cover's corners; two or three insignificant marks on page block. A very good copy with clear content throughout. TS Used
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Dawson, Lawrence (Revised by)
Hoyle's Games Modernized
Hardcover in jacket. Previous owner's inscription on FEP; Chipping to edges of DJ, but front illustration is not affected. Clean Copy
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Williams, Marcus; Phillips, Gordon
The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia
Hardcover, very good condition. Light shelf wear to jacket and minor bumps to the corners otherwise very clean. Boards are pristine and internally text remains excellent throughout. DP Used
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Hamilton Ellis, C.
Railway History
Paperback (Dutton Vista paperback). Covers are slightly worn; one minor crease on spine. Previous owner's name penned on half-title. Pages thereafter are clean and sound; text and images are clear. TS Used
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Swaddling, Judith
The Ancient Olympic Games
A very good paperback with slightly tanned page edges. All content is clear. (1992 printing.) TS Used
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Jacobs, W. W.
Sailors' Knots
Hardcover, no jacket. Tissue over a frontispiece; heavy soiling and foxing to cover; softening to top and bottom of spine; first and last inner hinge torn; age spotting to FEP and some pages; soiling to page block Used
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Crosland, Margaret
Ballet Carnival: A Companion to Ballet
Hardcover without jacket. Mild sunning to spine; previous owner's name on FEP Used
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SCHIOTTZ, Eyvin
Practical Yacht Racing: A Handbook on the 1959 Racing Rules, racing technique and tactics. Including Addendum of 1961 rules.
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Including Addendum of 1961 rules. Written by a leading Danish authority in colleboration with experts of International reputation, it covers the new rools, their practical application in tactics and techniques, and the administration of regattas. xii, 204pp., d/j with some wear and slight tearing. Clean Copy
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An Album of International Air Liners
Staple-bound paperback (19pp); Player's cigarette card album, complete with all 50 cards stuck in (printed information alongside each). Covers are marked; the whole a little worn. Cards are firm and bright, and content is clear. TS Used
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McNaught, Noel
The Canoeing Manual
Hardcover without jacket; from the collection of the late Conservative MP Sir John Smith; his name penned on FEP and what seems to be editorial pen marks on several pages. Klepper care manuals laid in. Page block head is marked. Correction label over error on illustrations contents page. Text and images are clear. 200pp including ads; 24 photographs and twelve line drawings. TS Used
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Woodfield, Graeme
Jack Lovelock: Athlete and Doctor
Paperback, signed by author on title page. Minor wear at one external corner - otherwise very good throughout. TS Used
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Halberstadt, Hans; Halberstadt, April
The American Train Depot & Roundhouse
Hardcover and jacket. Light wear at spine foot - otherwise in very good condition throughout. Text and images are clear. TS Used
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Campbell, Malcom
The Romance of Motor-Racing
Hardcover (no jacket), very good condition. With 77 photographs and 15 diagrams. Rebound by Temple bookbinders of Oxford in red cloth. Second impression, undated but c1936. Boards are very clean with only a very faint mark to the front top coner. Internally there is some foxing throughout but the text and images remain bright and clear. DP Used
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Laudisa, Giorgio; Piersanti, Fabrizio; Hall, Peter (eds.)
50th Anniversary Celebration: Allentown PA (July 27-30, 2016)
Paperback in very good condition. Based on an interview with Nicola Bulgari. Some minor shelfwear to cover and inner flaps. Rear cover is slightly warped. Binding is sound. Text and photographs are clear. CM Used
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Hutton, Arthur J.; Calderwood, W. L.
Our Fishing Diary: Hampton Bishop 1908-1933
Hardcover, in unclipped jacket, very good condition. The jacket has some wear to the edges with chips to the spine head and foxing on the rear. There are also a few nicks to the spine ends. The boards have some stains front and rear and the spine ends are slightly compressed. Internally there are no issues, the text remains very bright and clear throughout. DP Used
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Cuming, E. D.
British Sport Past and Present
Hardcover, no jacket; gilt embossed boards, very good good condition. Limited signed edition number 156 of 500. Full leather binding with gilt page block head. The boards have some surface marks and rubbing to the corners. The spine is a little faded with rubbing along the edges and the rear hinge is slightly loose. The binding remains solid with no loose pages. Internally excellent throughout with tipped in prints all present, bright and clear. DP Used
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Seeley, Colin; Surtees, John (for.)
Colin Seeley...and the Rest
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, very good condition. Flat signed by the author on the title page. Some light shelfwear to the jacket and minor indentations to the rear but very clean overall. Small patch of foxing to the end of the page block head. Internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Seeley, Colin; Surtees, John (for.)
Colin Seeley...Racer and the Rest
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, very good condition. Signed by the author with a dedication on the title page. Some light shelfwear to the jacket and minor indentations to the rear but very clean overall. Small patch of foxing to the end of the page block head. Internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Anderson, Len
Coaches North: The Story of the Hawke's Bay Motor Company
Numerous b/w photographs, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket lightly worn at edges, minor foxing to top of FEP, text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Clean Copy
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The Automobile Association Handbook 1932-1933
Hardcover in very good condition for age. No jacket. Boards are worn. Spine ends are bumped and nicked. Page block is marked. Closed tear across rear pastedown. Minor creases throughout pages. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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falconer, Alan A.
Motoring on the North York Moors
The cover has the library code etched into the top left hand corner, not very visible. The FEP, title pages and catalogue pages have all been removed from the book by the library. The inside cover has a name written in ink present. The text is clean, bright and tight Ex - Library
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Digby, Reginald
Triumphs of Sport and Speed
No date and edition stated. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations, pictorial cover. Rubbed edges of spine, spine beginning to detach from front board at the middle, softening and chipping to head and tail of spine, heavy wear along cover egdes, significant chipping to corners of cover, numerous scribles on cover, age stain on FEP and BEP, closed tears on back inside cover, creasing to bottom corners of pages 101-106, otherwise text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Used
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The Editor of 'The Motor'
How to Drive A Car: An Authoritative Treatise with the Safe Handling of a Motor Car Under All Conditions of Road Travel
Hardcover without jacket. This book does not have a publication date; it was not published in 1900. Presumed mid-late 1930s. A few grubby marks on boards, with sunning and light wear at edges. Leading corners slightly bent; spine marked and tanned with bumped ends and minor split on rear side, not affecting contents. Item slightly cocked. Page block sunned and foxed; a few foxing marks on some pages within, particularly abstract pages, never obscuring text. Blind stamp on first blank; faint ink imprints on title page. Pages well-preserved for age, if slightly sunned; binding is sound and all content remains clear. TS Used
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Havers, John; Campbell, Peter (eds.)
Tails of the Forties: Another Anthology of True Aviation Stories (Mainly Postwar)
Paperback. Signed by E. W. Maslen-Jones, author of Fire by Order, and dedicated to previous owner, J.P. Williams (father of Hugh Bonneville). Page block is slightly marked; otherwise very good throughout. TS Used
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Cadogan, Mary
Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction
Hardcover and jacket, both with a hint of wear along upper edge. One or two light marks on page block; pages are clean, with clear text and images. TS Used
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Timmins, Alice
Simple Patchwork
neat pen notes on page 5 Used
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The Field Book or Sports and Pastimes of the British Islands
Hardcover, very good condition. Full leather binding with segmented spine and gilt lettering. There is some wear to the edges and the spine has some rubbing to the ends. The hinges are slightly cracked but the binding remains solid with no loose pages. Page block is a little tanned but the text is bright and clear throughout with only minor foxing here and there. DP Used
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Frater, Alexander
The Balloon Factory: The Story of the Men Who Built Britain's First Flying Machines
Hardcover. Ghost of label on front of jacket; front board lightly bowed; page block is a little tanned. Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Ball, Kenneth
Workshop Manual for the 1100 Mark 1, 1962-67 Austin Morris MG Riley Vanden Plas and Wolseley
Hardcover (no jacket; illustrated front board). Boards, page block and some pages are slightly marked, including some occasional foxing. Page block is detaching from inner spine, though covers remain firmly attached to whole; no practical effect on contents. Upper page edges in first half are a little warped. All text and illustrations are clear. TS Used
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