ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover First Edition Little used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English
[Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]
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ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some dust marking to the page block but page faces are clear and excellent. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The vast literature of railways, mainly preoccupied with Parliamentary and inter-company struggles, with locomotive matters and with the minutiae of day-to-day operation, has to a large extent neglected the men who built, directed and managed the railways. Only a handful of the great engineers have received the attention they deserve, while the majority of the men who promoted our railways, whose perseverance secured the Acts of Parliament, and whose money paid the contractors, bought the rolling-stock and provided the working capital, are still shadowy figures whose very names are known only to the few. Mention of the Great Western Railway inevitably brings to mind the name of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the undoubted genius who planned and built a railway embodying enough unorthodox features to ensure the disapproval, opposition and even ridicule of his profession and many of the shareholders. Yet he had been dead almost a cent
[Wellington, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: ...
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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972 1972 Other First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xxiv, 386pp. 15 plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The top edge of the text block is slightly dusty, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0715356097.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xxiv, 386pp. 15 plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The top edge of the text block is slightly dusty, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0715356097 Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. ISBN 0715356097 9780715356098 [GB]

ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David and Charles [Publishers] Ltd, Newton Abbot] Hardcover First Edition 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xxiv, 386pp. With dust jacket. Black/gilt hardback cloth cover
[Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]
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ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]

ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]

ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover First Edition hardback, thick octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, some mild foxing, the text free of markings, xxiv + 386 pp
[Llanwrda, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]
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ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles Publishers] Hardcover Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1972]

ISBN10: 0715356097, ISBN13: 9780715356098, [publisher: David & Charles] Hardcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1972]

Newton Abbot: David and Charles [Publishers] Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Date: 1972. First Edition. Black/gilt hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xxiv, 386pp. . 1972. David and Charles [Publishers] Ltd ISBN 0715356097 9780715356098 [GB]

Hardback. Acceptable. ISBN 0715356097 9780715356098 [GB]

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Date: 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Presentable, tight and sound copy in an unclipped jacket. Some wear to jacket edges. No inscriptions. xxiv + 386 pages, plates, index. Approx. size 9.5" by 6.5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Railways; ISBN: 0715356097. ISBN/EAN: 9780715356098. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28596. . 9780715356098 1972. David & Charles ISBN 0715356097 9780715356098 [GB]