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TRACTION ENGINES WORTH MODELLING
Written by W.J. Hughes.
Stock no. 1827475
Published by Percival Marshall And Co Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to text block and margins. Else contents clean. Musty odour present.

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THE HEYDAY OF THE TRACTION ENGINE
Written by Eric Sawford.
Stock no. 1827409
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Oblong format. Colour photos. ISBN: 071102362X. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Contents clean.

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TRACTION ENGINES: A COLOUR PORTFOLIO
Written by David Lockett; Mike Arlett.
Stock no. 1827408
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 0711028400. Top corners of boards lightly bumped. Else a lovely copy.l

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THE TRACTION ENGINE COMPANION
Written by Peter Haining.
Stock no. 1824877
Published by Robert Hale. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, silver titles. B/w photos. The development and manufacture of traction engines from the 1850's. ISBN: 0709010214. Minor foxing and browning to text block else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners and browned to rear panel.

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ROBIN'S REAL ENGINE
Written by William Mayne. Illustrated by Einar Nerman.
Stock no. 2140266
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A 'Gazelle' Book. Colour pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. ISBN: 0241022193. Spine is browned. Page edges are browned. Wrapper is browned to spine, with some grubby marks.

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WYNNS THE FIRST 100 YEARS
Written by John Wynn.
Stock no. 1819938
Published by P.M. Heaton Publishing. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. The story of the heavy haulage firm based in South Wales. ISBN: 1872006094. SIGNED by the author (gift dedication) to verso of free front endpaper. Very slight fading to spine.

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THE HISTORY OF MANN'S PATENT STEAM CART AND WAGON COMPANY
Written by Eur Ing John Pease.
Stock no. 1818843
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2005. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A history of this well known, but little documented, steam engine builder. Landmark Collector's Library series. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and diagrams. ISBN: 1843062054.

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THE AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR 1855-1950
Written by R.B. Gray.
Stock no. 1818839
Published by American Society Of Agricultural Engineers. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition.

Revised edition. A historic work if the success of American agriculture as attributed to the development of the agricultural tractor. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and photos. 60 pages including index. Spine faded, corners of covers lightly creased.

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STEAMING VOL. 13 No. 1
No author listed.
Stock no. 2116656
Published by The National Traction Engine Club Ltd.. 2nd 1969. Almost very good condition.

Paperwraps. Traction Engine Issue. Many b/w photos and fold-out diagrams. Creasing and browning to covers; couple of small edge-tears/nicks. Page browning; some wrinkling.

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AINSLEY'S NEW DRAWING BOOK
Written by Tom Wake.
Stock no. 1603184
Published by T.L. Ainsley. Circa 1909. Good condition.

Red card wraps. Gilt tile to cover states "Plates and Diagrams to Accompany Ainsley's Engineers' Manual". B/w folding diagrams. Covers grubby, spine creased, corners rubbed. Plates present, one is torn with some loss and piece detached. Scattered foxing. Red ink annotation to many pages.

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PHILIP BRADLEY FAIRGROUND PHOTOGRAPHS & NOTES
Written by Kevin Scrivens; Stephen Smith.
Stock no. 1602766
Published by New Era Publications. 1st 1999. Fine condition.

January 1932-December 1938. Collection of captioned b/w photos together with selected notes from Philip Bradley's notebooks. . Large format. Pictorial card wraps. ISBN: 0953509729.

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