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A4 PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
Written by Peter Tuffrey.
Stock no. 1326987
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition.

A glorious history of the design, construction and service of Gresley's A4 Pacifics, some of the most beautiful locomotives ever to grace Britain's railways. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. 144 pages. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9780711083479. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

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BRITISH RAILWAYS STANDARD PACIFICS
Written by Peter Tuffrey.
Stock no. 1326986
Published by Great Northern Books. 1st 2018. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 189 numbered pages. ISBN: 9781912101764. Corners bumped. Some very slight creasing/rubbing to corners of wrapper.

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SECRECY AND THE MEDIA: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S D-NOTICE SYSTEM
Written by Nicholas Wilkinson.
Stock no. 1827481
Published by Routledge. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets. Black cloth boards, silver titles. ISBN: 9780415453752. A very nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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PEPPERCORN HIS LIFE AND LOCOMOTIVES
Written by Tim Hillier-Graves.
Stock no. 1326985
Published by Pen & Sword Transport. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The first detailed biography of Peppercorn, a vicar's son from Herefordshire and the last LNER Chief Mechanical Engineer. Large format. Black boards, silver title to spine. 259 pages. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781526729859. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners of book and dustwrapper.

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EAST LONDON BUSES: THE COLOURFUL ERA 1985-2005
Written by Malcolm Batten.
Stock no. 1326982
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2018. Fine condition.

The period of route tendering and privatisation, the variety of operators and the range of vehicle types and liveries brought to the capital. Cardwraps. 95 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781445684031.

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EAST LONDON BUSES: 1970S-1980S
Written by Malcolm Batten.
Stock no. 1326981
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2018. Fine condition.

The story of the change in the East London bus scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Cardwraps. 96 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781445680217.

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CENTRAL LONDON BUSES 1967-1987: THE RT AND RM RAMILIES
Written by David Christie.
Stock no. 1326980
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2018. Fine condition.

A wonderfully evocative and nostalgic look back on an iconic period in London's transport history. Cardwraps. 95 page. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781445680255.

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LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN EAST LONDON AND ESSEX: THE 1960S AND 1970S
Written by David Christie.
Stock no. 1326979
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2017. Fine condition.

A fascinating view of the golden age of transport in and around the capital. Cardwraps. Colour photos. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781445668000.

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EAST LONDON BUSES: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Written by Malcolm Batten.
Stock no. 1326978
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2019. Fine condition.

What has changed in the East London bus scene since the turn of the century. Cardwraps. 95 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781445680675.

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THE SACRIFICIAL YEARS
Written by Walt Whitman; John Harmon McElroy.
Stock no. 1827478
Published by David R. Godine. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War. Edited & with an introduction by John Harmon McElroy. Dark pink cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1567920799. Possible fading to front panel and spine of dustwrapper (not obvious).

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GUIDE TO THE FORESTS OF THE BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS
Written by T.C. Whitmore.
Stock no. 1827476
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1966. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Forest Record No. 2 of the Forestry Department, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. This book does not aspire to being a complete flora of the forests of the Solomon Islands but provides information that will be valuable to botanists and foresters. Care has been taken with the list and vocabulary of Kwara'ae names. Red cloth baords, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. A few b/w diagrams. Heavy knock to vertical edge of front board exposing board beneath the cloth and also a smaller knock to lower corner. Text block browned. Some foxspots present including a heavy spot to last few page margins. One or two minor margin annotations. Dustwrapper is browned to spine, chipped with loss at edges, heavy damp stain to front panel (worse is to verso).

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TRACTION ENGINES WORTH MODELLING
Written by W.J. Hughes.
Stock no. 1827475
Published by Percival Marshall And Co Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to text block and margins. Else contents clean. Musty odour present.

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