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Light Railways Number 31 Autumn 1970.
Stamford, Frank (editor)
Book Number: 67733
ISBN:
Publisher: The Light Railway Research Society of Australia 1970
8vo. stapled wraps. 22pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $15.00

Light Railways Number 30 Summer 1969
Stamford, Frank (editor)
Book Number: 67734
ISBN:
Publisher: The Light Railway Research Society of Australia 1969
8vo. stapled wraps. 22pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $15.00

Quicksilver, A Hundred Years of Coaching, 1750-1850
Anderson, R. C. and J. M.
Book Number: 67277
ISBN: 0858850834
Publisher: Wren, Melbourne, 1973.
8vo. hardcover. 223pp. index, b/w map, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w with small tear(repaired).
Price: $18.00

Smoke Gets in Your Lens / Endlose Dampfreise
Haslbeck & Wardale
Book Number: 67190
ISBN: 0620031921
Publisher: G. Haslbeck, Germany 1978. First edition.
Small squre 4to. hardcover. 96pp. full page colour photos. Very good, rubbing to cover corners. / Fair, torn d/w(repaired)
Price: $18.00

Lithgow Zig Zag Railway Blue Mountains - New South Wales.
Bayley,William A
Book Number: 67053
ISBN:
Publisher: Zig Zag Press, Bulli N.S.W. n.d. circa 1970.
8vo softcover stapled wraps. 40pp b/w illus. very good.
Price: $10.00

Locomotives of Australia
Oberg, Leon
Book Number: 66944
ISBN: 0864177798
Publisher: Kangaroo Press, Australia 1996.
4to hardcover 368pp index, b/w illus. Very good, light toning to top edge of pages. / Very good d/w. Third edition, completely revised & updated.
Price: $25.00

Men and Machines. The Brambles Story.
Manuel, D. L.
Book Number: 66260
ISBN: 0725400161
Publisher: Ure Smith, Sydney 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 56pp. colur & b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $15.00

Racing Round the World
Lurani, Count Giovanni
Book Number: 66065
ISBN:
Publisher: Foulis, London n.d. (1950s)
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 220pp. b/w illus. Good, light foxing, owner's inscription on fep. / Poor d/w with missing pieces.
Price: $20.00

The Country Railway in Australia
Bromby, Robin
Book Number: 61051
ISBN: 0949675032
Publisher: Cromarty Press, Sydney 1983.
8vo. softcover. 87pp. n/w illus. Very good, owner's stamp on fep.
Price: $12.00

Kitson Meyer Articulated Locomotives
Binns, Donald
Book Number: 65157
ISBN: 0907941109
Publisher: Wyvern Publications, 1985.
4to. laminated boards, hardcover. 128pp. Very good+, small crease on spine.
Price: $180.00

Railway Quiz / issued by the Department of Railways, New South Wales.
Railway Quiz
Book Number: 65069
ISBN:
Publisher: Department of Railways, New South Wales, 1946. 2nd impression.
12mo. stapled wraps. 56pp., b/w illus. Very good, owner's name on front cover corner.
Price: $55.00

Australian Horse Drawn Vehicles
Stringer, Michael
Book Number: 57388
ISBN: 0727012096
Publisher: Rigby, Australia, 1980.
Oblong 4to. hardcover. 280pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good d/w with small water mark on rear corner & some light creases to top rear edge.
Price: $55.00

The Rainhill Story: The Great Locomotive Trial
Burton, Anthony
Book Number: 64895
ISBN: 0563177365
Publisher: BBC, London, 1980.
8vo. softcover. 164pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good, book covered in clear adhesive.
Price: $15.00

Along Parallel Lines: A History of the Railways of New South Wales
Gunn, John
Book Number: 62931
ISBN: 0522843875
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1989
tall 8vo maroon cloth Hardcover in d/w. 600pp. very good. / very good d/w with faded spine. Index. Illustrated with b&w photo's. Maps on end pages. The stories of Settlement in Australia and the building of the railroad blend technical detail with the record of political intrigue, to show the railways as one of the nation's largest enterprises as well as an institution to which many of us have an almost romantic attraction.
Price: $20.00

Romance of Australian railways
Adam-Smith, Patsy
Book Number: 38193
ISBN: 0851795374
Publisher: Adelaide Rigby 1976
4to hardcover 246pp b/w & colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

The Holden Racing Team
Quested, Andrew
Book Number: 57484
ISBN: 0734405782
Publisher: Lothian, South Melbourne, 2003
4to. hardcover. 222pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $30.00

The N3 Book; Amazing stories and incredible facts to turn your drive into a voyage of discovery
Delmar, Peter
Book Number: 61737
ISBN: 0620341750
Publisher: Parkview Press 2006
Oblong 8vo. softcover. 158pp. Packed with stories about people whose settlements, struggles, wars and journeys over hundreds of years make this slice of SA one of its most fascinating. wherever you are on the N3, this book has stories to keep the whole family interested, stories about stone age cultures, amazing geography, remarkable animals, Boer War battles, dinosaurs, vanished villages, the struggle against apartheid, feats of engineering and freakish weather.
Price: $22.00

Trans-Australian Railway Linking East and West
Ferguson, Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro. (Opening Ceremony by)
Book Number: 59453
ISBN:
Publisher: Government Printer, Melbourne 1917.
Oblong 8vo. orig. dec. cloth covered stiff boards. 58pp. b/w illus. Good+. stamps inside covers, small spot of wear on the bottom of the second last page where pages stuck together. Small chip on bottom cover edge. Light foxing near edges. Scarce.
Price: $650.00

On Roads. A hidden history
Moran, Joe
Book Number: 53764
ISBN: 9781846680601
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2010.
8vo. softcover. 312pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $8.00

Railway Season
Thomas, David St John
Book Number: 54070
ISBN: 9780711232594)
Publisher: Francis Lincoln Publishers, London 2011.
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. Colour drawings. Very good+, minor rubbing to bottom cover corners./ Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00

From the Footplate: Eurostar ; A driver s eye view of the channel tunnel.
Waller, Peter
Book Number: 58614
ISBN: 0711024278
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, Shepperton, UK, 1998.
8vo. softcover. 112pp. b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $15.00

Sydney's Forgotten Military Railways
Oaks, John
Book Number: 58615
ISBN: 0909650411
Publisher: Australian Railway Historical Society NSW Division 1997
8vo. stapled wraps. 30pp. b/w illus. Very good+.
Price: $25.00

A pictorial history of Cobb and Co: The coaching age in Australia, 1854-1924
Austin, K. A
Book Number: 49094
ISBN:
Publisher: Adelaide Rigby 1977
Small 4to hardcover 219pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

Covered Wagons in Australia
Blake, Les
Book Number: 42979
ISBN: 072700798x
Publisher: Rigby 1979
8vo. Hardcover in d/w, very good. 64pp. Illustrated thoughout with in-text b&w photo's. Through the pages of this bok roll the stage wagons, the Prairie schooners, the tabletops of the days when wool was king of the inland tracks, the German wagons and cheesecutters of the selectors, the camel wagons and the bumboats of the far north. Not just a book on Wagons, but on Wagon builders, Drivers, stockmen, boys with dogs, picturesque language, Pioneers of Australia moving large consignments over our vast continent.
Price: $22.00

The Severn Valley Railway.
Marshall, John.
Book Number: 38536
ISBN: 0946537496
Publisher: London: Thomas 1989
8vo. softcover. 223pp. index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $8.00

Mr Briggs' Hat - A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Colquhoun, Kate
Book Number: 57433
ISBN: 9781847443700
Publisher: Little, Brown 2011
Trade paperback. 339pp. On 9 July 1864, after an evening with relatives, Briggs caught a train. Little did he know he was travelling into history.
Price: $14.00

Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838)
Drake, James. (publisher).
Book Number: 22901
ISBN: 0903485257
Publisher: UK., Moorland Reprints, 1974.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 147pp. + b/w plates, fold-out map, fold-out fares table, b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $25.00

The World Railway System
De Fontgalland, Bernard
Book Number: 57058
ISBN: 0521245419
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK. 1980
8vo. hardcover. 314pp. index
Price: $10.00