ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide.
by >>RARE MICRO-MINIATURE RAILWAY TIMETABLE
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hampton's railway guide of the 1850's reproduced as miniature facsimile in January 1929. 62 printed pages (a few leaves with corner tips creased; printing quality is not sharp). Includes advertisements for Hotels Cecil, Great Northern Hotel, Liverpool Street Station, Belgravia, Metropole, Grand, Majestic, &c. On the inside rear cover is an ad for the National Provincial Union Bank. On the inside front, ads for Aertex Cellular and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Along the spine it advertises Schweppes Table Waters. 12 x 20 mm. 0.5 x 0.75". Original tan card cover (slightly rubbed). Replica copy of one specially produced for Queen Mary's Doll's House. Photographic reproduction. Bondy calls it scarce in 1981. Spielmann says it is "a curiosity, of considerable rarity" (1961). Bondy, 153. Bromer, 114(photo). Spielmann, 1. Welsh, 8. WorldCat locates just 2 copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan and University of Virginia).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5269
- Title
- ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide.
- Author
- >>RARE MICRO-MINIATURE RAILWAY TIMETABLE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- no publisher
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 62
- Size
- 12 x 20 mm. 0.5 x 0.75".
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- microminiature
Terms of Sale
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
About the Seller
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
About Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
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I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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- Worldcat
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- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...