Buy this book on-line AUSTIN, STEPHEN: : The 'Cornish Riviera Express' - A VIEW FROM THE PASTUK.SHEPPERTON,SURREY.IAN ALLAN LIMITED,2000. ISBN 0711027234.
UK,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued - loosely laid in,a facsimile GWR railway poster (1904) postcard.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by George F. Heiron,illustrated boards,with red,orange and black lettering;
with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and immaculate double-page,
contemporary railway+locomotive scenic b/w
photographic illustrated endpapers.Top+fore -edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean -pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear uread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB, 1st edn,3-112pp [paginated] includes b/w photographic part-illustrated contents
list/table,prologue,4 chapters and an epilogue,profuse b/w contemporary railway+
locomotive photographs throughout the text
and the book.
The 'Cornish Riviera Express' is one of the greatest names in British railway
history.Starting in the first decade of the 20th century,the Great Western Railway's prestigious service from London to Penzance maintained it's premier status well into the postwar British Rail era.All those who are interested in the great days of British steam railways will find that this latest addition to Ian Allan Publishing's 'A View From the Past' series provides a superb illustrated history of this service,and its locomotives and rolling stock.Looking for other railway-related titles@ Then check out my GENERAL catalogue - some with book ID prefix rjap+number,others rja+number.
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