London: Hutchinson, (1956).

First revised and enlarged edition, first printing.

Color frontispiece.

Illustrated on almost every page with a generous bounty of photographs and drawings.
 
A detailed history of the origins, engineering, making, using, and running of newly innovated types of railroads, operating lines, and trains, around the world.

Fine in brick-orange linen with gilt embossed titles and rules to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with some short tears and clear tape-reinforcement to the upper and lower shelf-edges, a very small nick and rubbing to the spine panel; original printed 21s. net price and an added U.S. sticker price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 256 pages; index.

PLEASE VIEW

OUR STORE

FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS

THANKS!