SOUTHERN STEAM ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
by ALAN, FAIRCLOUGH TONY & WILLS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0851532284
- ISBN 13
- 9780851532288
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: D. Bradford Barton Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper with green ground and b/w titles. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.95. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 96 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: When formed in 1923, the Southern Railway inherited 45 route miles of track on the Isle Of Wight, along with a mixed collection of locomotives and rolling stock. There followed over 40 years of development and restructuring until the end of steam working at the end of 1966. Much of the atmosphere of the Isle of Wight railways has been captured in this fine selection of photographs with their informative captions.* A FINE copy of the 1st/1st with minimal wear to dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3091
- Title
- SOUTHERN STEAM ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
- Author
- ALAN, FAIRCLOUGH TONY & WILLS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0851532284
- ISBN 13
- 9780851532288
- Publisher
- BRADFORD BARTON
- Place of Publication
- Truro Cornwall, UK 98
- Date Published
- 1975-01-01
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