British Steam Railways
by NOCK, O. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Adam & Charles Black 1961. First edition, signed & dated by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 326pp, illus with 8 colour plates & 94 photographs, VG+ (browning to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, bruising & staining to edges)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 146183
- Title
- British Steam Railways
- Author
- NOCK, O. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black 1961
- Keywords
- first edition OS Nock Britain British railways trains transport steam engines locomotives enineering carriages stations architecture signals history
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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