Railways from Ariel Books

Wellington, New Zealand: J A Murphy, 1976. Stapled wraps with 100 historic photo illus and captions. CONDITION Nice copy with crease top front cnr, bloom spotting to edge of rear cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zaland: William Collins, 1990. History of building the railways from the first steam train from Christchurch to Ferrymead through to diesel and electric rail. CONDITION Green bds, 225 pages with illus and historic photos. Bright and crisp copy with Company stamp inside ends, foxed to interior of DJ else unworn. OVERWEIGHT. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.… Read more about this item

Wellington, New Zealand: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1973. History of Steam trains in New Zealand, the men and the engines. CONDITION Teal cloth bds with red spine title, liners illus with train shapes and years, pp xii 342 with historic photos, figural and technical illus and maps. Copy is bright and crisp, unworn with only faintest wear to… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zaland: Random House, 2007. Railways have played a central role in New Zealand politics, economics, trade union history, tourism and popular culture. Covers the development of rail, who uses the trains and why; daily life on and off the rails; the train in popular culture and the collective memory. CONDITION Laminated card wraps with French flaps, 259 pages… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zealand: Self Published., 1974. Nice unworn copy with 80 photo illustrations of Steam Engines. Only faintest handling signs.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Plymouth, New Zealand: Self Published, 1977. A railway was suggested as early as 1864, but the land wars put everything on hold eventually opening in 1875. CONDITION Stapled wraps (unworn) unpaginated (approx. 30 pages) with many historic photo illus and a map. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/N/A. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Self Published, 1974. Stapled wraps, 108 pages with historic photo illus of Steam Locomotives and maps. Copy is as new apart from faded spine edge. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Collins, 1973. Memories of working on steam trains with witty tales of events and personalities and a wealth of information about locomotive types. CONDITION 207 pages with numerous photo illus. Bright and crisp as new. DJ in archival cover and unworn apart from small tear top front. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Wellington, NZ: Hutchinson, Bowman & Johnson, 1938. Question and answer booklet. Green card wraps, 72 pages are bright and clean (named to ffep, staples rusting) ALSO NZ Railways. 'Instuctions to the locomotive staff for the Operating Non- Automatic or Straigh-Air Brake on Engines and maintenance of the same' marked private and printed 1931. Canvas limp bds, 8 pages.. Edition Unstated.… Read more about this item

California, USA: Trans-Anglo Books, 1974. 2nd Edition revised. Brown bds with crisp Silver title (unworn) photo illus eps have name, 95 pages with 3 maps. A nice tight clean copy (has ink notation of gradient ratio to margin of one page) Original DJ has faded spine and very light wear.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over… Read more about this item

Cornwall, United Kingdom: D Bradford Barton, 1976. Brown glazed cloth bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn) 96 pages printed on quality glossy paper with b/w photo illus through out and map to rear. A nice clean copy title. Original DJ has faintest wear to spine ends, not price clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo.

New York, U.S.A.: Moeller Fine Art, 1991. "Locomotives and Railway landscapes designs and sketches" exhibition catalogue. Text in German. 80 pages with full colour and b/w illus. Slight edge wear to oversized wraps and sl soiled ffep else tight and clean.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/N/A. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.