The Rainhill Trials - The Greatest Contest of Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
by Christopher McGowan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316724807
- ISBN 13
- 9780316724807
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown, 2004 Book. Very Good. Brown Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Account of a competition between locomotives staged by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Company in 1829. 379pp with index, illustrated with black and white reproductions. Dark green lettering to spine, brown endpapers. Minimal bumping to base of spjne and slight sunning to edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight surface marking and edgewear, with small nick at top of spine, otherwise very good..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013742
- Title
- The Rainhill Trials - The Greatest Contest of Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
- Author
- Christopher McGowan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316724807
- ISBN 13
- 9780316724807
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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