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HC. unpaginated ISBN 090288848X fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). 83 B&W illustrations (illustratore).

Condizione: Good. Light scuffs & scratches to the jacket. Lightly tanned textblock edge & endpapers. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Cloth. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. 1st. Photo album of last days of Britsh steam in the Bristol area. 83 plates. VG copy in very slightly worn dw.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Green cloth boards. No ownership marks. Numerous b/w photographs. 75 pages clean and tight. In 1927 when 'King George V' went to the United States to represent Britain at Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centenary Exhibition, an American journalist wrote, `Man has devised no other machine that expresses its feelings so frankly and unmistakably. A locomotive sighs, it pants, it coughs, it barks; it emits impassioned shrieks and mournful toots; it puts forth powerful staccato protests at hauling a heavy load or climbing a steep grade; it purrs ecstatically as it romps along the rails at a mile a minute; it can hiss and throb and snort and tinkle.' In those few lines he summed up the feelings that are still aroused by the sight, sound and smells of living steam locomotives. I am proud that it was my Company that restored to working life this most famous of the old G.W.R. locomotives and that it was `King George V' that led the main line return to steam in October 1971. With the co-operation of the British Rail Board it is now possible for the giants of the steam era to operate from time to time on selected routes, bringing pleasure to countless thousands. This book captures some of the great moments of the new era of steam in the early seventies. It is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the past and to the determinisation of that host of people who feel that steam locomotives should not be mere museum relics but instead a living and moving part of our recent history. PETER J PRIOR Chairman and Chief Executive, HP Bulmer Limited and President of the 6000 Locomotive Association Size: Sm 4to.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. A collection of eighty three stunning, needle sharp black and white photographs taken by Rex Coffin captures steam locomotion in the Bristol area, many published here for the first time. This volume covers the area around Bristol, Severn Tunnel, Yate and Stoke Gifford, Ashton, Pensford, Bath and Box Tunnel, Bristol Harbour lines and the Portishead branch. This book will be of immense interest to modellers and those with an interest in the history of railways. Ref TTT 2. …

1974, Oxford Publishing Company, landscape album of 83 steam views around Bristol. A personal recollection from the author's own photographs. Hardback with dustjacket. Slight dunt at foot of spine otherwise very good condition.

Hardback. 60pp ills. throughout 4to 1974. VG in DW.