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Good++, Good++ Drake Publishers 1972 4TO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcovers in dust jackets. 2 volume set. Volume 1: 1859-1910. Volume 2: 1910-1955/SAR Locos and Harbour Board Locos 1873-1904. Cloth boards with titles in gold on spines. Corners lightly bumped. Foxed fore edges, occasional foxing to text. Matching brown photo illustrated dust jackets show light edge wear chipping and soil. Volume 2 is sunned, lightly creased. Looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

New York.: Drake Publishers., 1972. 1st Edition.. Black cloth, gilt spine titles.. Near fine, ink name to ffeps, in near fine dust jackets.. 25.5x18.5 cm.. Heavy set, will require extra shipping. weight: 3.0 lb. Numerous illustrations.

Drake Publishers. New York 1972.. No inscriptions. VG+ in matching protected dustwrapper.. Chocolate cloth boards. 144pp illustrated 4to. Records the history of the railroads up until Union in 1910. Includes the Capetown-Wellington Railway, Port Alfred locomotives, Port Elizabeth & East London, The Natal Railway, the 3' 6" gauge: the Cape Government Railways (CGR), Metropolitan & Suburban, New Cape Central (NCCR) & Kowie Railways, The Natal Government Railway (NGR), The Orange Free State Railways (OVGS), De Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikan Spoorweg Maatschappij (NZASM), The Pretoria-Pietersburg (PPR), Selati and Ermelo Railways, the Imperial Military Railways (IMR) of the Anglo-Boer War, and the Central African Railways (CSAR). Appendix of Chief Mechanical Engineers and Locomotive Superintendents. Well illustrated with plates and dimensioned drawings.

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1972. GR.8°, 144 S., zahlr. Abb., Kart. m. OU., Tadell. Text engl. 010

New York: Drake Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 25.5 x 19 cm. Sm 4to. 144 pages. Black cloth in dust jacket. Volume 1 only. Dust jacket is price clipped. Additionally, on the rear dust jacket flap the prices of additional titles in the Drake Railroad series have been carefully cut out. Drake International Railroad Series. From the back of the dust jacket: "Road and works numbers of engines are given throughout, together with technical details where these are of special interest, and the book is lavishly illustrated by some 130 locomotives photographs, many of which have never previously been published, and 115 detailed scale drawings. The result of nine years' intensive research, this is the most comprehensive and detailed account of the steam locomotives of South Africa yet published and an invaluable source of reference to railroad historian and enthusiast alike.