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SHEFFIELD TRANSPORT
Written by Chas C. Hall.
Stock no. 1828509
Published by The Transport Publishing Company. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tracing the story from the earliest days of stage coaches through the horse and electric trams to the modern buses, and describes the development and expansion of the Corporation's Transport Department until the formation of the South Yorkshire PTE. Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w photos and some colour photos. ISBN: 0903839040. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Front free endpaper a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial ustwerapper is lightly creased across top edge, lightly faded and a little scuffed.

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JOURNEY BY STAGES
Written by Stella Margetson.
Stock no. 1828468
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some Account of the People who Travelled by Stage-Coach and Mail in the Years Between 1660 and 1840. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and a few colour. A few minor, faint marks to boards. Tea (?) stain to vertical edge of endpapers and text block but does not affect contetns. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, browned and scuffed, faded to spine.

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LOOKING AT CARRIAGES
Written by Sallie Walrond.
Stock no. 1822030
Published by Pelham Books. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour and b/w photos. Horse-drawn vehicles from 18 different countries. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0720712823. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Light mark to lower corner of front board. Text block lightly browned. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased with creasing to laminate at spine.

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ROADS AND VAGABONDS
Written by Kenneth Hare. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1819579
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Circa 1930. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title and vignette. Colour frontis. Black and cream illustrations to text. Covers very slightly grubby. Very pale scattered foxspots.

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THE ROMANCE OF TRANSPORT
Written by Ellison Hawks.
Stock no. 1606211
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition.

Colour frontis. Numerous b/w plates. Spine bumped and a little faded. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout.

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QUICKSILVER
Written by R.C. Anderson; J.M. Anderson.
Stock no. 1604090
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A hundred years of coaching 1750-1850. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0715360833.

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THE STORY OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN BRITAIN
Written by J. Joyce.
Stock no. 1802718
Published by Ian Allan. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An outline history of the development of public transport in England. B/w photos. Covers nice and clean. Minor foxing and browning to endpapers. Top edge of text block a little dusty. Contents fine. White dustwrapper is lightly scuffed else a very nice example.

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COLLECTANEA IV
No author listed.
Stock no. 1201338
Published by Oxford Historical Society. 1905. Nearly fine condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Contains A Description Of Oxford From The Hundred Rolls; Oxford Church Notes 1643-4; Three Consecrations of College Chapels; Thomas Baskerville's Account of Oxford; Bill of Costs of Charles Ellis for the Coronation of George IV; Coaching In and Out of Oxford 1820-40. Book: name in ink to front endpaper

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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS
Written by W. Outram Tristram. Illustrated by Herbert Railton; Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 630817
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1888. Good condition.

Library binding. Green leather spine with gilt title, black cloth boards. B/w plates and illustrations. Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Spine worn, edges rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Library stamps to verso of plates and margins of some pages. Finger marks and margin marks to contents. A good working copy.

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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS
Written by W. Outram Tristram. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; Herbert Railton.
Stock no. 816358
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1893. Almost very good condition.

Limited large paper edition of 250 copies. Burgundy cloth. B/w illustrations. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Joints slightly cracked. A few scattered foxspots. Spine and cover edges faded to brown. Copy No. 91.

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STAGE-COACHMAN
Written by Thomas Cross.
Stock no. 627233
Published by Hurst & Blackett. 1st 1861. Very good condition.

Three volumes. 8 x 5". Red embossed cloth, gilt titles to spines. B/w frontis to each volume. Bookplate of Eric S. Quayle to front pastedown of Vol I. Top and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Contents very good.

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SOUVERAINS EN FUITE
Written by Andre Castelot.
Stock no. 605686
Published by Amiot Dumont. 1st 1952. Fair condition.

Card wraps. Contents and covers very good but detached.

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