Railways by Pendleton John, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete two-volume set. Nice books, bright covers and spines, sturdy bindings, clean interiors. Mild edge wear. Front endpapers have bookplate, name, stamp of previous owners; light to moderate foxing throughout. Profusely illustrated. Beware the cheap reprints from India, they are scanned copies with illustrations inferior to this original edition.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 556+559pp, plates, photos, maps, diagrams, dwgs, green half leather/gilt/marbled boards worn, marbled endpapers, top edge of pages gilt, sl foxing particularly on page edges. Two heavy volumes - please enquire regarding postage.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in smart, red quarter leather, with bight gilt titles to spine, this 1894 First Edition is VG. XV1/559pp with 21 Chapters. Line drawing illustrations, photos, tables, map, engravings etc. Minor rubbing to boards, odd scattered foxing: one phrase underlined in violet pencil on contents page. Clean endpapers, sound binding and otherwise all VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 matching HBs in full brown cloth binding with gilt titles to fronts and spines. Well-read with corners bumped/rubbed and edges scuffed/ Vol. I. has FFEP missing with losses to title page. Both front hinges are weak and both have faint, minor fox spots. Vol. I. xxiv. plus 556pp. plus publisher cataloge. Vol. II. xvi. plus 559pp. plus publisher catalogue. Both contain b/w ills and photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ex library hardbacks with original brown boards without dust jackets, usual library stamps/markings. 1st editions published in 1894 2 volume set by Cassell & Company Ltd., London. Volume 1 with 556pp & 124 illustrations - all intact; boards are worn, fep & rep hinges are cracked but binding intact, page edges grubby & foxing to pages, page 333/4 has closed tear over 3/4 page; Volume 2 with 559pp & 172 illustrations - all intact, boards are worn, fep & rep hinges are split exposing webbing but binding intact, page edges grubby & foxing to pages. Both volumes in fair overall condition. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. Heavy set - 2.2kgs - will ship overseas for extra postage. 7A*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes. Brown textured cloth covered boards with gilt titling. Some light general wear and remains of previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown otherwise a clean tight set. This is a heavy set of books and we will request extra postage if ordered from outside the UK. C00003550.

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 556 + [16]ads; xvi, 559 + [16]ads. with half-titles. 3 frontis. (1 folding) & numerous text illus. (many full-page). 1 folding table. original cloth (scuffed, a few small surface abrasions, extremities trifle frayed, occasional foxing). First Edition.

2 vols. Illustrated from photographs and engravings. 8vo, publisher's olive decorated cloth. First edition. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; minor use at edges to the bright attractive bindings.