The Book of the Railway by Mitton G E (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrations by Allan Stewart (illustrator). Presumably First Edition. 356 pages. NO DUSTJACKET. Colour plate.s No dustjacket. Greenish-brownish tinge hardback binding with railway illustration white, red and lack to front board and to spine with some colour-fading to spine, moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Browning to preliminary and late pages and page-edges, initials and 1920 to inside of front board o/w pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Allan Stewart (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1909 Adam and Charles Black first edition hardback, pictorial boards; good copy, signs of ageing, wear and paint marks to spine, loosening at internal hinges; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Condition: Fair. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 356 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative green cloth with gilt lettering. Missing front free endpaper. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Rough-cut pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Noticeable splitting to joints. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Waxed pictorial boards. Top edges gilt. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with a further eleven colour plates. Fold out map inserted between last page of text and first page of adverts. No dustjacket. Head and foot of spine rubbed. 5 mm closed tear to cloth covering spine and 5 mm closed tear to cloth covering bottom edge of upper board. Lower board slightly mottled. Corners of fore edges of boards lightly bumped. "By the Same Author" page has been pasted onto the front pastedown. Colour frontispiece loose. Rear pastedown and last page tanned. Occasional light foxing throughout. Fold out map lightly foxed and repaired/reinforced with tape. Overall, the book is in a good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 21×16cm; [2],(x),356,12 ads+[12 plates]pp. Decorative cloth with gilt titles. Light general wear. Binding square but tending to break along lower hinge. Top edge gilt. Clean within. Colour plates. Folding map at back torn loose but in place. A 'Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lovely illustrated boards, showing signals and train arriving at the platform. No dust-jacket. Head page edges gilded. Neat small name and gift inscription to inside front. Twelve coloured illustrations and open-out map of English railways line at 1909 to front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Allan Stewart (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp ix, 356. Frontis and 11 further coloured plates and a folding map (creased). Original pictorial cloth. Teg. A nice, clean copy.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 406. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1909 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 406.

, ix, 356 pages with 12 Illustrations in colour and a map of the main railway systems of england at the end of the volume, dedicated by the author to the front free endpaper First Edition , light rubbing to corners and spine, spine faded, endpages and edges tanned, light foxing at rear of book and map at end is ripped and foxed, rear hinge repaired, good condition , bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and full illustrations in colour on front board and spine, gilt top edge , 21.5 x 16cm Hardback SIGNED by the author ISBN: