LOCOMOTIVES, THEIR CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION, WITH NOTES ON ELECTRIC, INTERNAL COMBUSTION AND OTHER FORMS OF MOTIVE POWER 2 Volume Set Complete
by BELL A Morton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Virtue & Co, 1936 excellent copies, both volumes of the set, very slight rubbing to joints, minor foxing to page edges, photographs, illustrations, charts, diagrams, tables, index, folding charts, colour frontispeices, 433pp total, very nice collectable and decorative set, large and heavy books will incur excess postage cost. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003340
- Title
- LOCOMOTIVES, THEIR CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION, WITH NOTES ON ELECTRIC, INTERNAL COMBUSTION AND OTHER FORMS OF MOTIVE POWER 2 Volume Set Complete
- Author
- BELL A Morton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Virtue & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Rail Railways Steam Engine Locomotives The Boiler, Superheating, Cylinders and Valves, Framing and Wheels, Lubrication, Tenders, Brakes, Feed-Water, Repairs, Maintenance, Combustion and Fuel, Running Faults and Failures, Shop Arrangements, The Enginemen,
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRANSPORT AVIATION MOTORING;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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