Search Results: Railway from David Ford Books

New York : Simmons-Boardman, 1958 First edition . Hardcover book , 22x30cms. Blue cloth, no dustjacket. 196pp. With b&w photos & scale drawings, throughout. For modellers. Freight cars, passenger cars, car trucks. Very Good : covers clean, with light edge rubbing, owner's name to flyleaf. Pictures available.

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1977 First edition. Hardcover book , 23x29cms. Cloth and dustjacket. 254pp. With b&w photos and scale diagrams throughout. Historical introduction then detailed information on each class of locomotive in use at the time. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light creasing and fading to spine ends, a little spotting to top edges. Light rubbing to jacket. Pictures available.

London: Edward Stanford, 1869 First edition. Inscribed inside front cover: With the author's compliments. Hardcover book . Original blue cloth with gilt titles to front. 140pp. With folding coloured map of Enagland & Wales at front showing 'proposed organisation of the railway system into districts', by R. Price Williams, pub. by Stanford. Early railway history analysing the roles of private industry and the state. Clean covers, front bright, but spine cloth very frayed with half missing. Contents good: split to front internal hinge but pages held and largely clean- a few underlinings. Map clean and bright but has some minor edge tears. Ex-library with residues of labels to front endpapers, and small class number to spine. A Good copy. Pictures available.

France: Éditions Michèle Trinckvel, 1996 First edition / premier edition. Hardback book / couverture rigide. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. Toile et protège livre. 219pp, height / taille: 29cm. With black and white photographs throughout, some whole page, showing railway history in France in the twentieth century -has photos of engines, railway workers, sheds but also passengers, events and stations - a social history as well as a railway history, and evocative. Text entirely in French. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Trés bon état. Minor bumps to cover corners. Pictures available.

USA: Golden West Books 1969 1869-1969. Hardcover book , endpaper map, 182pp with illustrations. Dust jacket rubbed with some chips and rubing to corners and ends. AVG copy in still G+ DJ. Pictures available.

London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First Edition Book which was aimed at providing for the general non-technical reader, an account of the railways of the country at the time, to help him understand something of the conditions in which they worked, the difficulties encountered and the problems that had to be solved. Hardcover book , vii, 245pp, 8pp publisher's advertising late. Gilt to spine and front board. Small inscription of previous owner to fep. V slight rubbing to boards and spine. A fine copy nonetheless. Pictures available.

Glasgow & Edinburg: WM Hodge, 1910 First edition. Soft cover book : cloth covered card wrappers with cloth spine. 825p, folio, h: 33cms. Proceedings of the arbitration hearing in Edinburgh between the Caledonian Railway Company and its employees on the proposed cuts in wages or increase in hours worked. Includes full testimony and questions, stock and locomotive capacity details of rhe railway company, with fold-out tables. Worn and rubbed wrappers with losses to spine labels, split to binding at front though generally sound for such a heavy volume, pages clean with some light creasing. A Good+ copy. Pictures available.

London: The Railway Executive, London Midland Region Soft cover book , 18x22.5cms, 32pp plus 8pp of photographic illustrations and route map. Pictorial covers, some light marks to edges, faint fingermarks to rear. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket . 123pp, largequarto. With some colour and many b&w photos, throughout. Historical and atmospheric photos, with detailed text. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Pictures available.

New York: H & M Productions 1994 Volume 5 of the series. Paperback book , oblong format, pictorial covers. 64pp with colour photographs throughout. Light edgewear, and creasing to spine with light rubbing. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Paris: Editions de la Courtille, 1980 First edition / premier edition. Hardback book / couverture rigide. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. Toile et protège livre. 557pp, height / taille: 35cm. With 16 colour pages of SNCF posters and 900 b&w illustrations in text. Avec 16 pages couleurs d'affiches de la SNCF et 900 illustrations traits et similis. Not just French railways but from various countries, from early steam to modern trains. Text entirely in French. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Trés bon état. Pictures available.

Birmingham: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co undated Hardcover book with Card covers, folding plate frontis, one other plate to rear. viii, 192pp with examples throughout. Although undated the previous owner's name and date of 1826 to front cover. Front cover, with fep and plate are detached from rest of volume. Rear cover also detached. Covers have previously been re-attached and spine taped by previous owner but spine covering is now almost non-existent. Remainder of volume is still tight. Tape marks also visible to reverse of plate, title page and rear endpaper. Internally clean. A reading/rebinding copy of a scarce item. Pictures available.

Dehli: Oxford University Press, 1994 First edition. Hardcover book . Maroon cloth with gilt titles and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 279pp, octavo. With b&w photos in plates. Focuses on the author's personal experiences of travel on Indian railways, as well as their history, and the current scene. He was a writer in India. Very Good in Fine jacket. Some light marks and corner bump to covers. Pictures available.

USA: North Plains Press 1974 Hardcover book , 23x31cms, 1st ED, 2nd printing. Some rubbing to rear of dust jacket, slight loss to base of dj spine. A VG copy in VG dust jacket. Pictures available.

Surrey: Ian Allan 1963 Hardcover book , first edition, 84pp, b&w photographs throughout. Slight tannig to endpapers, minor bumping to spine ends. dust jacket rippled, spine slightly yellowed. A VG+ copy in still VG dust jacket. Pictures available.

California:History West , 1981 First edition. Paperback book : laminated pictorial card wrappers. 95pp + many adverts. Many colour & b/w photos & illusts. Mainly visual railway history, with some timetables and infrastructure information: the Golden State route went from Chicago to Los Angeles from 1902. Includes information on cities along the route. Light rubbing to wrapper edges, pages clean. A Very Good+ copy. Pictures available.

Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) 1918 Hardcover book , 25x37cms. Half leather, cloth boards, rubbed to spine, chip to top, cloth torn bottom right (front). Small oval Northern Railway stamp to numerous pages. Some pencil crosses and marks throughout. A G+ copy of a fascinating item. Pictures available.

David & Charles: 1984 Hardcover book , 2nd imp, 22x29cms, 208pp plus folding map to rear. Signed by David St John Thomas to half title page. Very minor bump and crease to spine base. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973-4 First edition, two volumes complete. HB. Maroon cloth and dustjackets. 144pp & 144pp. With b&w photos, illustrations and technical drawings throughout. Good in Very Good protected jackets. Clean covers; light browning to page edges, vol. 1 has closed tears to three pages, text readable, and owner's details to front pastedown. Jackets lightly rubbed, a few marks to backs, some fade to spine of Vol.2.

London: John Murray Book Club Associates 1985 Tales of the Great Western 1892 - 1947. Hardcover book Signed and dedicated by the author, pictorial endpapers, 191pp, 24 b&w photographs plus tables and diagrams. Minor spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped with v. light edgewear. A near Fine copy and dust jacket. Jacket spine slightly sunned. Pictures available.