Fifty Years of Railway Signalling
by Nock, O.S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers. Very Good. 1962. 1st Printing. Hardcover. 222 p. 23 cm. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Light wear to the corners, edges and spine ends. Gilt titles on spine slightly dulled. Photocopied page glued to the front pastedown endpaper. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, inside pages are clean and unmarked. Published in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers 1912-1962. Colour frontispiece and a few black and white interior plates. Laid in is a letter to the previous owner's from P.H. Edwards Bookseller in Cheshire, England about some signalling catalogues they had available for sale. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3941
- Title
- Fifty Years of Railway Signalling
- Author
- Nock, O.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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