Horan Ken (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Ted Parker. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Looks like a signed copy. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> This second volume of 'On Parallel Lines' takes another dip into the archives and hopefully satisfies the hundreds of requests we have had for 'more of the same. It has given us the opportunity to publish shots that had to be omitted from Volume 1 on grounds of space (ie: the lack of it), and expand the coverage of prime steam locations such as Manchester Victoria and Exchange. But we've gone a little further, covering that period which I refer to as "the wilderness years" between late 1968 and 1973 when the only thing steaming on the main line was a solitary A3 in LNER green livery - and even that small respite lasted only until September 1969, when Flying Scotsman was shipped to America, to begin its ultimately abortive 'trade mission'. Suffering serious withdrawal symptoms, we turned our sights to far-distant foreign lands (well OK- just 26 miles in fact, to the other side of the English Channel) where the spirit of steam was far from dead. France was still remarkably v.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. Glazed pictorial card wrap. Spine remains uncreased. No inscriptions, 200pp. Clean and bright pages with black and white images throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 204pp with b/w photographs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.…

Card Covers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 205pp, photos, landsape format. High quality photos of steam at home and overseas.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by both authors on the title page. Single very light crease on the spine otherwise the book would be like new. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box. Signed by Author(s).

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 169pp, photos, landscape format. Privately produced album of photos of steam in the 1960s. V scarce.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition. Large oblong format. Card wraps. B/w photos. A pictorial record of British steam locomotives. SIGNED by authors to title page. Pale page edge browning. Light wear to corners. Small nick to top of spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. SIGNED - please see description for details.…

Soft. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1 signed by the authors. Pages clean and bright, soft covers and bindings tidy. Size: 4to Landscape. Signed.