Schieldrop (77 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rev. & enlarged ed, printing not stated. First thus. Boards clean and bright, light shelf wear only. Spine solid, binding sound. Previous owner's decorative name stamp (pictorial of train) on front end paper, else unmarked and clean. DJ not clipped (21s.) edges g…

Condition: Good. 1956. Revised, Enlarged. 256 pages. Illustrated jacket over cloth. 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 shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light mar…

Condition: Good. 1939. This Translation First Published. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Part of the Conquest of Space and Time series, consisting of four unnumbered volumes. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout with colour photographic frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defe…

Condition: Good. 1956. 256 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to s…

Cloth. Condition: G/P. Revised Edition. London, UK: Hutchinson. G/P. (1956). Revised Edition. Cloth. Describes the work of engineers from China to Peru. Deals with all aspects of railway building from tunnel-boring and bridge-building to track-laying and railway stations. Includes signalling to accidents and rescue work and stea…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Green cloth boards, sharp and bright, with mild shelf wear to edges and corners. Book firm in binding, 320 + Index pages, b&w photographs. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Green cloth boards, clean and sharp, shelf wear to edges. Book firm in bi…

Condition: Good. 1957. Revised Edition. 256 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bum…

Condition: Good. 1939. First Edition Thus. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. 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 she…

(Subject: Aviation - General) The illustrated story of mechanical flight from man's earliest attempts to fly. Covers the causes of failure in aerodynamics, the basic principles of flight in heavier-than-air machines, Balloons and airships, The development of world transport, and Stratospheric travel. A revised and enlarged editi…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight clean copy of 1939 edition first published in the English Translation. Green-blue covers with gilt decoration to front and lettering to spine. shows some signs of shelf wear including some scuffing to edges and small dirtyish marks to front. Internally previous owner's de…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No publication date; circa 1940? Spine extremities and front lower corner are bumped and lightly rubbed. Else binding clean. Rear hinge is cracked. Light soiling to front end papers. Foxing to rear end papers. Else pagess clean. Rubbing to DJ spine extremities and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 type…

Revised Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 256 pages, 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Previous edition 1939. Subjects: Railways; Trains; Transportation; Railway History. 3 K…