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The History and Description of the Great Western Railway, including its Geology….

By: BOURNE, John C.

Price: $4,000.00

Publisher: London , David Bogue: 1846

Seller ID: cs201120a

Binding: Crushed brown morocco [modern]

Condition: Very Good

Full title: The History and Description of the Great Western Railway, including its Geology…., and the antiquities of the district through which it passes; accompanied by a plan and section of the railway, a geological map, and by numerous views of its principal viaducts, bridges, tunnels, stations, and of the scenery and antiquities in its vicinity. ##### First edition, second issue; large folio; 15”x21”, 76 pp., including appendix. Lithographed pictorial title, dedication leaf and list of plates with vignette. 47 views and architectural details on 33 sheets, tissue guards, 2 hand-col...
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The Science of Railways 12 Volumes [Mixed Set]

By: Marshall M. Kirkman

Price: $325.00

Publisher: NY, The World Railway Publishing Company: 1902

Seller ID: cs201116a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

12 vols. 8vo. Marshall Kirkman (1842 –1921) capped a nearly 60-year railroad career by writing a 12 volume treatise on the science of railways, first published beginning in 1894. This revised edition was published several years later, along with several supplemental volumes that brought the series to a total of seventeen. This is a mixed set of twelve -- nine from the revised series, and three supplemental volumes published for the first time, ##### Vol. 3 - 535 pp + 2 p ads, Financing, Construction and Maintaining, Volume 4 - 533 pp + 2 p ads, Train Service, Vol. 5 - 609 pp + 2 p ads,...
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The Silver Streak / A Screenplay [Association Copy]

By: Roger Whately, Jack O’Donnell, H.W. Hanemann

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Haskell-Travers: 1935

Seller ID: k210115j

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 8vo, black cloth, silver gilt titles. 268 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs from the 1934 RKO film. Copy of Colin Higgins, who directed the 1976 film of the same name starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor - with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Higgins wrote the script for the 1976 film but it is essentially unrelated to this novel -- whose plot revolves around the invention of a revolutionary, streamlined, diesel-powered train and its role in speeding medical equipment cross-country at 150 mph to help allay a threatening polio epidemic. Based upon an original sto...
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Category: Railroads & Transportation

The History and Description of the Great Western Railway, including its Geology….

The Science of Railways 12 Volumes [Mixed Set]

The Silver Streak / A Screenplay [Association Copy]