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EARLY RAILWAYS: A SELECTION OF PAPERS FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL EARLY RAILWAYS CONFERENCE
Written by Andy Guy; Jim Rees.
Stock no. 1324938
Published by The Newcomen Society. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Twenty two important and previously unpublished papers examining aspects of the railway, from 600 BC to 1840 AD. Glazed pictorial boards. 360 pages. B/w diagrams, photos and illustrations. ISBN: 090468508X. Spine and corners bumped. Lower page corner tips of first 20 pages slightly creased. Top edge of textblock slightly dusty else contents fine.

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THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LMS STANDARD COACHING STOCK I
Written by David Jenkinson; Bob Essery.
Stock no. 1825050
Published by Haynes Publishing Group. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Volume I: General Introduction and Non-Passenger Vehicles. Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0860934500. Light wear to board corners. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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A PASSION FOR STEAM
Written by Marc Horovitz.
Stock no. 1825047
Published by Atlantic Publishers. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small scale steam locomotives and how they work. Large format. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9781902827186. Corners very lightly rubbed. Tiny closed tear to top of half-title page. Rear endpaper creased on the diagonal to top corner, imprinting a light diagonal mark across top of index page. Otherwise contents fine. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is worn at top & tail of spine and a little scuffed to rear panel.

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TRAINS, CULTURE AND MOBILITY: RIDING THE RAILS
Written by Benjamin Fraser; Steven Spalding.
Stock no. 1324737
Published by Lexington Books. 1st 2012. Very good condition.

Essays highlighting the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Glazed boards. 309 pages. ISBN: 9780739167496. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight rubbing to corners. Small dent to lower edges of textblock.

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A PICTORIAL RECORD OF LNER WAGONS
Written by Peter Tatlow.
Stock no. 1824497
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. B/w scale diagrams. ISBN: 0902888927. Light browning to edge of boards and text block. Else contents clean. Picorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and scuffed to rear panel.

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PRIVATE-OWNER WAGONS (SPECIALIST BOOKLETS No.11)
Written by Peter Matthews.
Stock no. 1824454
Published by Model And Allied Publications. 1st 1973. Nearly fine condition.

MAP Technical Publication. Brown cardwraps. B/w photos and sketches. 48 pages. ISBN: 0852423438. A very nice copy.

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ABOUT RAILWAYS
Written by Herbert Simon; William Fenton.
Stock no. 1323611
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1957. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 113. Pictorial paperwraps. Covers lightly edge rubbed. Crease to top corner of rear cover and a few top page corner tips also creased. Light foxing to textblock.

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THE WEYMOUTH HARBOUR TRAMWAY
Written by J.H. Lucking.
Stock no. 1824115
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Countless summer visitors, as well as passengers for the Channel Islands and France, have come to know Weymouth as 'the place where the trains run through the street'. This comprehensive study provides a full account, from arly unfulfilled proposals in the 1840s, through the line's horse-drawn bneginnings in the 1860s and long years of commercial importance, to the almost complete decline following the withdrawal of freight traffic in 1970. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860933040. Top corners of boards bumped. Lower board edges browned and with red pen marks to corners and lower text block. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, tiny nick to top 1/3 of spine and corners rubbed.

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A REGIONAL HISTORY OF THE RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN: VOLUME I THE WEST COUNTRY
Written by David St John Thomas.
Stock no. 1824075
Published by David & Charles. 6th 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

6th Edition, completely reset. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Includes fold-out plan to rear. ISBN: 0946537178. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Light corner crease to lower corner of front endpaper. Minor foxing to text block. Map to rear present and initials in biro to rear pastedown (hidden by rear flap of dustwrapper). Pictorial dustwrapperis lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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NORTHERN NORTHUMBERLAND'S MINOR RAILWAYS: VOLUME TWO: COLLIERY & ASSOCIATED LINES
Written by Roger Jermy.
Stock no. 2140809
Published by The Oakwood Press. Circa 2011. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Locomotion Papers 234B. ISBN: 9780853617044. Light wear to cover corners; small brown sticker mark to front cover.

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STEAMING THROUGH THE WAR YEARS REMINISCENCES THE EX-GER LINES IN LONDON
Written by Reg Robertson.
Stock no. 2140807
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1996. Very good condition.

Oakwood Reminiscences Series RS3. Card wraps. B/w photos. 152 Pages. ISBN: 0853614725. Couple of marks to title page.

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STEEL WHEELS AND RUBBER TYRES VOLUME ONE
Written by Geoffrey G. Hilditch.
Stock no. 2140806
Published by The Oakwood Press. Circa 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Transport around Oldham in the 1930s; Locomotives at Gorton in the 1940s; Leeds trams in the 1950s. Oakwood Reminiscences RS10. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0853616140. Light wear to cover edges. Browning and a few marks to outer page edges.

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