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| MICHAEL HOLROYD Book Number: 79543 |
Published price: $18
Bibliophile price: £0.63
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An acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey and other post-Victorian rebels, Michael Holroyd has now written an unforgettable book about his own relationship with the Motor Car....
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| KEVIN TURNER Book Number: 81070 |
Published price: £12.99
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Sub-titled 'A Hapless Biker's Guide to Europe', here is an hilarious insight into the challenges and excitement afforded by a lone motorcycle journey through Europe. In his quest to escape the fra...
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| A. SASSOLI-WALKER & S. POOLE Book Number: 74033 |
Published price: £19.99
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Drawing on the words of both passengers and crew, this lovely book celebrates the innovation in cruise ship design that Artemis -The Royal Princess represented, and highlights her career with both ...
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| ERIK LARSON Book Number: 82579 |
Published price: £20
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The story of the Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915 under the pretext that it was carrying munitions, was a turning point in World War I, ultimately influencing President Woodrow Wilson...
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| CHARLES MOSELEY Book Number: 82748 |
Published price: £20
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Ernest Shackleton once said "I burn with a strange passion for the South" - the author feels the same about the North. A laudably busy chap, he is a lecturer in English at Cambridge, Fellow of the...
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| STEVE WILSON Book Number: 83009 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £17.50
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A celebration of the originality of the Speed Twin, Tiger, Thunderbird and Bonneville models, 1938-62. For most owners and potential buyers of these great machines the question of originality is v...
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| CLARE HORNE & KATHRYN PHELPS Book Number: 83694 |
Published price: £14.99
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Here we have a most unusual anthology of WWI letters. In the course of the Great War the men of the Great Western Railway Audit Office who were serving in the armed forces kept up regular correspon...
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| KEITH LANGSTON Book Number: 84003 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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Scotland has always been renowned worldwide for its engineering prowess and this naturally included the design and construction of steam locomotives. During the steam era Scottish-built engines wor...
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| TIMOTHY JEFFERY Book Number: 84452 |
Published price: £25
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Sub-titled "A Tribute to The World's Greatest Races, Sailors and Their Boats" this handsome volume is a stylish and beautifully illustrated production, with three clear sections making it easy to n...
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| RICHARD O. SMITH Book Number: 84514 |
Published price: £14.99
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Suffering from acute acrophobia and also a bathmophobic - a fully functioning adult who is afraid of stairs - Richard O. Smith emanates from Oxford's Town not Gown and his admiration for an histori...
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| WILLIAM M. FOWLER JR. Book Number: 84435 |
Published price: £20
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Between 1845 and the American Civil War came a transport revolution delightfully described at the time as "Vulcan now rides in Neptune's Barge". Steam power, the greatest invention - and prime driv...
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| GAVIN WEIGHTMAN Book Number: 84662 |
Published price: £20
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We all know that the Wright Brothers were the first to fly a powered, piloted heavier-than-air machine, but what of those who had the idea before, but didn't have the technology or resources needed...
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| ANTHONY BURTON Book Number: 84715 |
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We very rarely acquire a Pitkin publication at a discounted price so we are thrilled with this little offering with the LNER Flying Scotsman gracing the front cover. Includes James Watt, the engin...
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| SIMON WILLS Book Number: 84827 |
Published price: £19.99
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Man has been journeying from continent to continent via the sea before any other form of transport, and in this book Simon Wills provides a new perspective on this way of travel, including both sai...
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| MARCUS REDIKER Book Number: 85003 |
Published price: £16.99
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The voice of the ordinary sailor is showcased in this brilliant inversion of sea tales. Marcus Rediker explores the stories and wayward experiences, not of merchants, admirals, or 'empire builders'...
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| RUDYARD KIPLING Book Number: 85045 |
Published price: £8.99
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In the decade leading up to WWI the government was spending huge amounts on building up the Royal Navy, the so-called 'silent service', and people were beginning to question where, exactly, this mo...
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| STEPHEN MCSHANE & GARY WILK Book Number: 85048 |
Published price: $50
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From 1896 to 1970 the USA was the world's biggest producer of steel. Not only was steelmaking the country's biggest business in its heyday, but it was a peculiarly American one, an industry that ch...
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| ELISABETH HÉBERT & G. HOLZER Book Number: 84769 |
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"A Navigational Treatise of Exceptional Opulence: The Complete Facsimile, 1583." Taschen publishers present a facsimile reproduction of Les premières oeuvres de Jacques Devaulx, pilote en la marin...
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| OCTOPUS PUBLISHING Book Number: 85343 |
Published price: £16.99
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A big glossy showcase telling the fascinating story of the motorcar's extraordinary evolution and highlighting some of the most iconic vehicles ever produced in this country. Important, interestin...
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| CHRIS TARRANT Book Number: 85083 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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As a boy much-loved broadcaster Chris Tarrant always loved railways - not so much the trains, but the actual railways themselves, particularly in remote and exotic-sounding parts of the world, wher...
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| TIMOTHY WEST Book Number: 85084 |
Published price: £20
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The charming, calming excellent series of television programmes that follow Timothy West and Prunella Scales as they meander along the canals, taking in the sights and sounds, has captivated millio...
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| BARRY ROWE AND GARY DOYLE Book Number: 85547 |
Published price: £79.99
Bibliophile price: £28.00
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Special numbered editions limited to 1,500 copies, each has been hand numbered and personally autographed by both the artist and author and comes in a smart British racing green clothbound slipcase...
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| RICHARD HAMMOND Book Number: 85637 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Aficionados of the Clarkson/Hammond/May canon will be well aware of The Hamster's love of motorcycles and Jezza's diametrically opposed loathing of anything with fewer than four wheels, so it is hi...
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| DAVID MAIDMENT Book Number: 85597 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.50
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Beautifully produced by Pen & Sword, this second volume of Maidment's account of his career as a railway manager and chronicler of the last days of steam is a delight to read, with some wonderful p...
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| John O'Connor Book Number: 85713 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Glorious facsimile reprint of the 1950s classic book on the delights of Britain's rivers and waterways. The eminent wood engraver John O'Connor has produced a lyrical prose, and illustrates with o...
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| Colin Maggs Book Number: 85727 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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The story of one of the most iconic railway companies of the great age of steam written by one of our country's foremost transport and engineering historians. Thousands of commuters south of the T...
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| WILLI JASPER Book Number: 85879 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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The 1915 sinking of the British liner Lusitania, homebound from New York, was the event that brought the US into World War I when it became known that 128 American citizens had perished. But from t...
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| DON BENN Book Number: 85908 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £9.50
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The collection focusses on train running performances, modern and motive power and all matters Southern. Locomotive performance in Europe, and a tramway are also included and a fascinating and lit...
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| NEIL MAX TOMLINSON Book Number: 85911 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £18.00
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Created by Ettore Bugatti's eldest son Jean, the iconic Type 57 racer went through several incarnations between 1932 and 1939, the year in which Jean died tragically in the car a few days before th...
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| MURRAY NAYLOR Book Number: 85915 |
Published price: £25
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Cleverly combining his passions of railway organisation and medieval churches, the author embarks on various journeys as he explains how two great ages shaped our lives; that of the Normans who bui...
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