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[1935-1936] Railway Wonders of the World
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
A fascinating first edition collection for rail enthusiasts.
This work was originally issued over 50 weekly instalments across 1935 and 1936.
With seventeen unnumbered leaves of plates to volume I and sixteen unnumbered leaves of plates to volume II. Folding plate on first page volume I. Collated complete.
This comprehensive look at the railway looks at not only the history of the railway but contemporary services worldwide. There are photographs and analyses of the latest carriages, royal trains, Brazilian tracks, locomotive speed records, the Severn tunnel and more.
Edited by British railway engineer and technical journalist, Cecil J Allen and Clarence Winchester, a prominent editor of journals and magazines.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped front boards. Externally, very smart. The odd small mark to boards. Minor water stain to front board of Volume II. Light sunning to boards, but remain bright. Light bumping to extremities, in particular head and tail of spine. Volume II has a small closed tear to head of spine. Scattered spotting and faint offsetting to end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot, especially to fore edges.
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