London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 187pages including "A wealth of contemporary [monochrome and black-and-white] photographs and prints---"; elegant book in crimson with an image of a two-car train in gilt on front cover and very bright and clear gilt lettering on spine, very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ has tiny tears/chips to spine and hinge ends. For more steam, and who can get enough? see also our listings for P. Ransome-Wallis' The Last Steam Locomotives of Eastern Europe, and for N. L. McKellar's From Derby Round to Burketown: The A.U.S.N. Story [Australasian United Steam Navigation Company], or even Christian Duckworth's Railway and Other Steamers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good -.

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Bookseller: Eric James (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044240
Title: The Golden Age of Steam
Author: Pudney, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good ++
Jacket Condition: Very Good -
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1967
Keywords: HISTORY ENGINEERING EXPLORATION Ocean Trains MacHinery SEA SHIPPING MARINE TRANSPORTATION English British Industrial Revolution Social History Ships Locomotive Mechanical
Bookseller catalogs: History; Transportation; Ships;

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