Stephens Light (65 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK ANDDUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,STATED FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STSTES IN OCTOBER 1969.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969. Hardcover, 290 pp. 1st American edition (stated). Novel set in the Renaissance. Book near fine; a tight, unread copy. Jacket flap is clipped but the original price remains intact on bottom corner. A Library binding, with Holt gold sticker affirming this across the spine. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve.…

PB. Condition: good+, wraps (softcover). 16pp of text First published in 1936. 7 B&W plates and text ill. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. Holt Library Edition. Top flap clipped. Price at bottom.

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. A clean, tight and unmarked copy in dust wrapper. Very neat.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Black hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Ex St John Library. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 264pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Price clipped d/w slightly shabby with darkened spine, slight snags and tears to top edges and rubbing to spine base. Contents, on light cream paper stock, are clean, firm and near fine. Renaissence historical novel.

3pp, 1 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 32pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers, with colour illustrations throughout. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market. Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types. Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further coloured by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number. AUTHOR: Brian Janes is the Curator of the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum at Tenterden with which he has been closely associated for over twenty years. A Kent born resident he has family associations with Stephens' Kent & East Sussex Railway and served as a director of that railway for many years after he retired as a Whitehall Civil Servant. He is a leading historian of Colonel Stephens nationwide collection of railways. 250 b/w illustrations Colonel Stephens ran independent railways on a shoestring, assembling a rich variety of locomotives to run his lines, some built to his designs. Set out in this book, for the first time, the how and why he achieved this across his whole 'empire'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 290 pgs, cloth. Story of a young Renaissance woman who defies tradition & seeks success in the world of commerce. VERY GOOD+ in VERY GOOD+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a NEAR FINE, clipped Dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 290pgs, In Publisher's library binding, not a library discard.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US edition hardback with the original gold Holt Library Edition sticker to spine, 1969, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - slight rubbing to edges. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. …

Hardback. Condition: New. Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market.Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types.Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further coloured by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market.Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types.Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further coloured by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.…

Condition: New. 2023. hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: New.

dj. First Edition. First American Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dustjacket. Price-clipped. Gold label on spine announces this as a "Holt library edition". Published originally in England in 1956, this is the First American edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 290pp, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper (price-clipped).

Condition: New. 2023. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 176 pages. 9.40x9.80x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 130pp Ills. incl. colour, maps, a great introduction to the man and his railways.Card covers NEW copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Excellent fine interior, no markings or inscriptions - immaculate quality boards; d/j nr fine as just a small edge-tear to top front, light rubs to corners - illustration extends to rear and with original price to inside flap./.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ', it was signed by Roger Butler and two others. Publishing such a letter seven years prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality was a radical and dangerous move. But it was a risk that marked a huge milestone in the fight for gay rights. By the 1970s, the Gay Liberation Front was calling on people to come out to help reduce stigma, and it continued to be a core tactic in the 80s and 90s. Roger, however, had done this a full decade earlier. This is the story about of first man to voluntarily come out in his own words, using his own name, to the entire British public. Taking us through a criminalised underworld of pubs, parties and campaign gatherings, The Light of Day charts how Roger helped bring about a change in the law, legalising sex between men, but soon found himself marginalised from the movement he kickstarted after becoming completely blind in his early 30s. Worn down trying to navigate life afresh in London, he left for Oxford, where he became increasingly isolated and never found the life partner he so desperately wanted.Enter Christopher - an Oxford University student asked by a friend to visit and read to an old, blind man. Though their intergenerational friendship bloomed, Roger never spoke of his revolutionary act. Instead he wrote about it secretly, leaving his account to Christopher after his death, along with a sealed pink folder. It was in that folder that the Roger revealed his final wish, for Christopher to tell his remarkable story.A hugely moving and powerful story about sexuality, disability, friendship, isolation, love and more, The Light of Day is a vital piece of missing history about a brave revolutionary in the fight for equality.…