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The Rainhill Trials.
by McGowan, Christopher
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0316724807
- ISBN 13
- 9780316724807
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HARDBACK "The Greatest Contest of Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Little Brown.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. As new, no shelf wear, seems unused. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers, dark brown. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w reproductions and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 316 pp. text. lxx pp. notes, index, credits and blank pages at rear.* Description: ?On 6 October 1829, in a small hamlet just outside Liverpool, ten thousand spectators gathered to witness one of the most remarkable events of the Industrial Age; a battle between locomotives that became known as the Rainhill Trials. This book is written with equal attention to social and engineering history and richly textured with anecdotes and pen-portraits. It brings these remarkable events to life & describes the evolution of the engines and the huge historical impact of the trials themselves; how they revolutionised transport, ushered in the age of steam locomotion, transformed the lives of engineers who took part and stoked the pace of the industrial revolution.?* A FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st./1st.with NO VISIBLE FAULTS.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5532
- Title
- The Rainhill Trials.
- Author
- McGowan, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 70
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0316724807
- ISBN 13
- 9780316724807
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- London UK 316
- Date Published
- 2004-01-01
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