Standard Gauge Great Western 4-4-0s Part 2: 'Counties' to the close 1904-1961 ([David & Charles locomotive monographs]) by O. S. Nock - 1978

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David & Charles, 2016-05-09. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10x7x1. 96pp. (green & white spine) 4to. small sized. 1978. First edition. A lovely, clean, tight, bright near fine copy in a very good jacket. Original publisher's green boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions. Light spotting to the upper fore-edge. No inscriptions. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has some shelf wear. A well preserved first edition copy.

David & Charles, 2016-05-09. Hardcover. Used:Good.

David & Charles, 1978. 1st edition. fine/fine. fine book in fine price clipped dw name inside 1st David & Charles 1978 hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 96 pages. Illustrations. Tables. Diagrams. Cast Histories. Index. Ex-library with some of the usual markings. Oswald Stevens Nock (21 January 1905 - 29 September 1994), nicknamed Ossie, was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company; he is well known for his prodigious output of specialist publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as many more technical works on locomotive performance. He authored articles on railway signaling and locomotive performance for The Engineer researched during World War II, and from 1958 to 1980 he succeeded Cecil J. Allen as the author of the "British locomotive practice and performance" series published in The Railway Magazine. He rode on the footplate of a LMS express locomotive in 1934, as a result subsequently he regularly submitted information on locomotive performance to The Railway… Read More

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Standard Gauge Great Western 4-4-0s Part 2: 'Counties' to the close 1904-1961.

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Hardback. New. O.S. Nock continues his account of the GWR 4-4-0s with a further look at G.J. Churchward and his programme of modernisation and standardisation, particularly in boiler design, and his introduction of the 'County' class - the last of the new GWR designs. He goes on to describe the impact of two world wars; the implications for the 4-4-0 classes post-Grouping, with particular regard to the Cambrian section; the start of withdrawals in the 1920s and the introduction of the 1930 hybrids, nicknamed the 'Dukedogs'. Nock's trademark detailed text, accompanied by copious photographs and locomotive layout diagrams, includes run logs and his descriptions of footplate trips including a notable one made on City of Truro.

DAVID AND CHARLES, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. A better than very good hardback copy in a very good bright dustjacket: firm, clean, square and tight with no underlining or splits. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels.

Newton Abbot, London & North Pomfret: David & Charles, 1978. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Personal blind-stamp to the front flap and bottom corner of the title page. Pages very gently age-tanned. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9¾” x 6¾” (0.6 kg); 96pp; Index; In the David & Charles Locomotive Monographs series; Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Tables; Frontispiece; Title page vignette; 2-column text; ISBN: 0-715-37684-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book… Read More