Ernest Simmons Edited Jack (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Memoirs of a Station Master. This book, first published anonymously in 1879 under the title Ernest Struggles, is an account of the author's life on the Great Western Railway in the 1850s and 1860s. It affords one of the very few pictures we have of the railway service seen from the inside. Such records are very rare. What makes this one unique is that the author knew how to write. His lively comic sense and sharp turn of phrase give the book a continuing vitality; it is an entertaining and authentic commentary both on the railway and on the social life of the mid-Victorian are. 165 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Sm. 4to. 165pp. An account of the author's life on the GWR in the 1850s and 60s first published anonymously in 1879. Orange boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Social history and victorian railway life. Uncommon.