Bailey Winifred (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edition Not Stated. G, Edgewear, tears, creases, mild spine lean, rust stain, browning. Woman's World Library No. 571. Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 394 pages. Light wear to book, no markings or annotations other than author's signature to ffep. Dust jacket has chipping and a closed tear to front panel (now protected in a removable archival sleeve). Fillmore was a nursery man who lived in Centreville, Nova Scotia, Head Gardener at Grand Pre National Park, and at one time an agronomist on a large state farm at Kemerovo, Central Siberia. The 1992 biography written by his grandson Nick Fillmore " Maritime Radical." details his life and political career. Winifred Fox, Harold Bailey (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional technology: the Nantlle railway, (7) The railways of James Watt, (8) An engineering assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon railway (1807-46), (9) Early railways in Dorset: the industrial railway of Purbeck, (10) North eastern locomotive pioneers 1805 to 1827; a reassessment, (11) The strange story of the Steam Elephant, (12) Rope haulage: the forgotten element of railway history, (13) An alternative railway technology: early monorail systems, (14) Rings, springs, strings and things: the national collection pre 1840, (15) The first steam locomotives on the European mainland, (16) The origins of the St Etienne rail roads, 181-38; French industrial espionage and British technology transfer, (17) The transfer of pioneering British railroad technology to North America, (18) The Albion mines railway of 1839-1840; some British roots of Canada's first industrial railway, (19) Learning through restoration; the Samson locomotive project, (20) Coal, banks and railways, (21) Early railways and regional identity, (22) The Stanhope and Tyne railway; a study in business failure, (23) Reflections on the iconography of early railways.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A COLLECTION OF NINE OCCULT SHORT STORIES, TITLES ARE THE SACK BY WINIFRED CARNEGIE, THE DANCING DOLLS BY JOHN BODY, THE BLACK CADUCEUS BY S. G. J. OUSELEY, THE HANDS BY V. J. HANSON, SELF & SHADOW BY A. C. BAILEY, THE FORBIDDEN VILLAGE BY W. P. COCKCROFT, FLASHBACK BY HENRY RAWLE, FAR ENOUGH BY IAN AVON & BRAINSTORM [ANON]. BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CARD COVERS, MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 36 PAGES INCLUDING REAR COVER. FEW MINOR MARKS & LIGHT CREASES TO COVER WITH SOME OCCASIONAL CREASES TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH COVERS WELL ATTACHED. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX. …

Second booklet of short stories of an occult theme, published in Burne Street, Marylebone, about 1946. 36 pages including wrappers, printed in blue throughout. The first issue was published possibly as early as 1941 and is titled simply "Occult". Pictorial paper wrappers, upper wrapper stained. Stapled spine unrubbed and firmly holding. A rare survivor especially in this excellent condition. Unsold copies of the second issue were rebound as part of "Four in One Weird and Occult Shorts". Scarce. Second booklet of short stories of an occult theme, published in Burne Street, Marylebone, about 1946. 36 pages including wrappers, printed in blue throughout. The first issue was published possibly as early as 1941 and is titled simply "Occult". Pictorial paper wrappers, upper wrapper stained. Stapled spine unrubbed and firmly holding. A rare survivor especially in this excellent condition. Unsold copies of the second issue were rebound as part of "Four in One Weird and Occult Shorts". Book. …