Traction Engines by Philip Wright (22 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A very good condition book and an earlier dated first printing with a priceclipped but w…

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 89 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild sh…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust wrapper with creasing, edge and corner wear, rubbing, fading, marks, sunned spine, spotting on fllaps, water mark on reverse. Back board top corner a little bumped, both boards bowed, Top, and Fore edge with spotting. Name and date written on inside of front board, In…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Adam & Charles Black, 1971, reprint. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xiii,90pp, illust. D/j lamination slightly lifting. A good copy. 071360607X/0.5uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a d…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed, several closed tears, a little age-tone with the price clipped. Edges of the textblock heavily spotted with the spotting moving onto the endpapers and blanks; Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Adam & Charles Black, 1959. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xiv,89pp, illust. Endpapers slightly tanned, d/j a little worn and chipped. A fair copy. /0.5uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a d…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 89pp. 430g. Traces the history of the traction engine from the horse drawn `Portables' of the mid-nineteenth century to the first self-moving models for farm and road work. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, 24 b/w plates plus 23 drawings. Green cloth boar…

Second Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 89 p., 25 plates ; 8º. Notes: Includes index. Subject: Traction-engines. Traction-engines…

Second Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 89 p., 25 plates ; 8º. Notes: Includes index. Subject: Traction-engines. Traction-engines…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Rather worn and soiled. First Edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp 89, cloth very slightly worn, in a rather poor worn dustwrapper. [A highly individual copy, made of much greater interest to the enthusiast by the addition of 38 coloured and 3 black and white postcards mounted throughout the book. The postcar…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 89 pages. With colour frontis., 24 plates from photographs and 23 drawings. In this first comprehensive account of the farm engine, the road engine, the steam roller and the steam wagon, the chairman of the National Traction Engine Club traces the history o…