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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication no. 153, original quarto paper wrappers, ex library else text clean and binding tight . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 170 pages. 6.00x0.44x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. A collection of five different titles from the Observer's Pocket Book series. All uniformly bound in cloth of varying colour, with titles front and spine. All illustrated. 16mos. All volumes in generally very good condition, some are slightly pushed at spine ends, most have a little dust marking to the upper text block edge, and some have a previous owner's name or inscription internally, else are neat, clean bright and tight. All in glossy, illustrated dust wrappers, some lightly bumped on extreme edges, some price clipped and almost all a little shelf worn and sunned, faded on the spine. A mixture of editions and printings but all in the style of dust wrappers introduced in 1970 - glossy and laminated with a distinctive square, framed illustration - and prevalent until around 1980. Observer's Pocket books is a series of pocket-sized books published by Frederick Warne and covering topics such as hobbies, art, nature and history. The first in the series - British Birds - was published in 1937. The 99th title, the Observer's Book of Observer's Books was released in 1999 (by Peregrine Books) in a matching format. The series was rounded to 100 with the publication of Wayside and Woodland in 2003. Many of the titles have been revised, reprinted, updated and released in different dust wrappers over the years - it is estimated that there are some 800 variations - and have become collectible: the earlier numbers and rarer issues can be hard to find We have many books from the Observer Pocket Book series in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one at a time. Please inquire.…

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 38. 254 x 172 mm. 8vo. 9 pp. 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 34. 254 x 172 mm. 8vo. 8 pp. 1 plate, tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 65. 255 x 173 mm. 8vo. 11 pp. 3 plates; finger prints in margins of page 4. Printed wrappers. Very good.

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 73. 254 x 170 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. 2 figs., 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 46. 253 x 171 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. 10 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Saskatchewan | The Making of a University | Arthur S Morton | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | University of Toronto Press | EAN 9781487578831 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; ix, 404 p. ; illustrated with numerous black and white photogrpahs, portraits; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 66-25516 ; OCLC: 1630383 ; LC: QL31.G73; Dewey: 598.2/0924 ; green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; photos, Arthur A. Allen, Spencer Judd, Wallace Rogers, Ivan R, Tomkins, Willie Gray Cahoon, E P Haddon, john M Hopkins, Stephen F. Briggs, Samuel A Grimes, Howe Sadler, Joseph E King, Carl S. Koford, Steve Crouch, E R Kalmbach, Chuck Abbott, Lloyd E Woolever, Nor man Groth, Martha Odum, A Wetmore, Ruth Greene, N R Whitney, Norman French, Douglas Fulton, Jean French, Mary Anne McClendon, J J Carroll, D. Pyle, W Earle Godfrey ; Earle Rosenbury Greene helped found both the Georgia Ornithological Society and th e Louisiana Ornithological Society. He served for a time as refuge manager for the US Biological Survey at the Okefenokee. In the 1920's and 30's Greene kept detailed notes on bird observations in the Atlanta Georgia area. From these note he published "Birds of the Atlanta, Georgia, Area", one of the first annotated bird checklists for the state, and was co-author of the first formal checklist for Georgia birds, published in 1945. The Georgia Ornithological Society established an award in h is name in 1975. ; includes a Life List of North American Birds, with locations noted for each bird ; with detailed bibliography and index ; FINE. Book. …

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 12½'' x 8¼''. Contains 272 printed pages of text with archive monochrome illustrations and colour photographs throughout. Slight curling or the corners to the front cover and in very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Golf].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 2 v. fronts., plates (1 double) ports., facsims. 24 cm. ; LCCN 27021262 OCLC 1675917 ; LC DC216.4 .A35 1927 ; Appendix: Unpublished letters written by Napoleon I to Queen Hortense from June 10, 1796 to June 10, 1815: v. 2, p. 341-374 ; dark green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjackets ; Partial Contents: Volume II :The Queen Hortense: In the Days of Marie-Louise :The King of Rome ( 1810-1812) -- From the Campaign in Russia to the First Abdication (1812-1814) -- The First Restoration: The Death of Josephine (April 16-May 31 , 1814) -- The First Restoration ( continued) ( June 1, 1814-March 4, 1815) -- The Return of the Emperor (March 5-March 21 , 1815) -- The Hundred Days (March 22-June 10, 1815) -- From Waterloo to Malmaison (June 11-June 29, 1815) -- The Return of the Bourbons : On the Way into Exile (June 29, 1815-July 24, 1815) -- The Wandering Queen (July 25, 1815-December 7, 1815) -- Politics and Personalities ( December 7, 1815-April, 1817) -- Calm after Storm (May, 1817-1820) -- Unpublished Letters Written by Napoleon I to Queen Hortense ( June 10, 1796-June 10, 1815 ) ; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Interesting instructions on what *not* to ship soldiers overseas (so fires won't be started in the holds of ships); Full page ad for Sal Hepatica; Argentine Goose Step - "Hitler's Imitators have scuppered democracy right in our own hemisphere" - article with photos; The Great Fridolin (M. Gratien Gelinas of Montreal) - article with photos; Spark Plug - hockey fiction; What do the federal Liberals stand for? - Mackenzie King answers questions; That Roarin' Game - Curling is sweeping the nation; Why Rundstedt Attacked - after its Ardennes gamble the dice are now in Allied hands; The Disunited Nations; They Also Serve (fiction); Unfinished Anthem - a Canadian by choice tells why he made his choice; Our Pilots Don't "Black-Out" - Wing Commander W.R. Franks O.B.E. and his research to aid Allied pilots - article with photos; Nice half-page two-colour Aunt Jemima pancake mix ad "sho' hits the spot"; Nice colour half-page Pepsi ad; Nice half-page colour Canada Dry ad; Tarts for Dessert. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A high quality copy. Machtey; Yarwood (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 160 pages. Features: Cover photos of RFK and Kenneth Keating; Nice color-photo fashion photos; Close-up of the Vietcong in their Jungle - a French reporter held captive by guerrillas in South Vietnam reports on what he saw of the Vietcong; Barry Goldwater's Nine - photos and write-ups of Denison Kitchel, Dean Burch, F. Clifton White, Edward A. McCabe, John Grenier, Wayne J. Hood, Karl Hess, Tony Smith and Stephen Shadegg; An 'Ombudsman' for America; Uncle Sam is Really Needed - growing Federal role in local affairs; The More the Congo Changes - military photos; If 'Creeping Inflation' Begins to Run; Government as Patron of the Arts - there are dangers in official sponsorship and uncritical goodwill; The Flowering of a Campus Hybrid - the two-year community college; Sihanouk - Prince Under Pressure - article with photos, including his ballerina daughter Bopha Devi; Robert Goulet is featured in a color-photo fashion ad for The House of Worsted-Tex; K7UGA Will Get the Ham Vote - Senator Barry Goldwater may get votes from the 266,000 U.S. amateur radio operators; Thirty Years Ago - The Morro Castle burned off the New Jersey shore with a loss of 134 lives; The Basuto Enclave (Basutoland) in South Africa; 2/3-page color ad for movie 'Mary Poppins'; Some sports are 'in' and some are 'out' - a guide to the chic seven; Jokes LBJ has been telling lately; Fashion photos of French designs; When Children Discover Money; Designed for privacy - The New Haven home of Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander; The movie 'Three Coins in the Fountain' has led to millions of dollars pelted into fountains and pools; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of J.W. Richards, Joan Lakow and Nelson Reed; Zero Mostel - Rome to Russia; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Manning, Jack; Ribeaud, Paul; McCoy, Dan; Johnson, Lee; McDarrah, Fred W.; Zimbel, George; Mahoney, Ursula; Glueckselig, Leo; Shaw, Sam; Cushing, Charles Phelps; Doty, Roy; Moss, John; Falk, Sam; Brower, Arthur; Okimoto, Yoshi; Leombruno-Bodi (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. iv, 754 pp. ; illustrated ; 30 cm. ; OCLC: 1566149 ; OCLC: 2446332 ; OCLC: 8478507 ; LC: TT500; Dewey: 051 ; green and orange cloth with Victorian decorations and lettering ; three or four pages loose ; tear to top of spine ; foxing ; missing pages 67-70, 279-280, 449-450, 617-618, 727-728 ; a few very unusual articles featuring prisons, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Temperance, Women's suffrage, Photography and Crime, Gypsies, etc ; a color oil print (chipped) possibly by Maud Humphrey; several photographs of famous persons and actors, including the Wilson Cherubs, U S Grant, Sheridan, Joseph Jefferson, Lucy Stone, Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alexandre Dumas, Phoebe and Alice Cary, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Calvé, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving; many fashion sections ; heavy volume ; FAIR Partial Contents : The Naval Cadet at Work and at Play, The prize article on the naval cadet, written by a naval cadet / T. G. Roberts -- Familiar talks on the Different Schools of Art : American Artists / Polly King -- Wedding and Engagement Rings / J Carter Beard -- Our National Nut (Peanuts) / Harriet Cushman Wilkie -- Within Prison Walls : Thanksgiving Day in New England / Arthur Field -- A Diary of an Athletic Girl / Constance Burton -- Cholly's Last Serenade / J H Connelly -- Society Fads / Madame La Mode -- Winter House-Flowers : What kinds to select and wat care to give them / Eben E. Rexford -- Our Girls : Madge / Emma Howard Wight -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Ugle Spots Beautified / E A Fletcher -- A Japanese Floral Calendar -- Sanitarian : Care of Infants / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The World's Progress -- Artistic Notes -- What Women are Doing -- Chat -- Boxing the Compass / L Beard -- Our Baby Prize -- Two Exquisite Panel-Pictures -- Household : The Little Luncheon -- Our New Premium Picture -- Mirror of Fashions -- Perversions of Personal Liberty / W Jennings Demorest -- Demorest's Editorial Flashes -- [Christmas Eve at Bethlehem] -- December 1893 -- Children of the Stage / Elfried De B. Gude -- The ROad to Fame or Fortune : How to Become Successful Professional Women / Margaret Bisland -- The Man Underneath : A Romance of a Christmas Journey / Leslie Kane -- An Excursion to t he Land of Dolls / Aunt Ella -- Nemesis / Anna Jaffray -- Christmas Decorations / Eben E. Rexford -- The Prodigal : A Christmas Play / Marion E Monckton -- A Christmas Carol, music by Henry George Nicholls, words C L Hildreth -- Our Girls : Christmas Lists / Lida C Tulloch -- Sanitarian : The Care of Growing Children / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The Haty Woman's Christmas / Mary E Child -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Christmas Gifts for Everybody / Frances H Perry -- A Japanese Calendar -- Household : Some Christmas Sweets -- Artistic Notes / Alice Donlevy -- Our Country's Crisis / W Jennis Demorest -- January 1894 -- A Ceylon Tea Farm / Leslie Kane -- Among the Nurses / Evan Stanton -- A Woman's Romance in Wall Street / Arthur Field -- Undercurrents of Humor from the Fair / T A DeWeese -- What the Little Chap Did / Evangeline Harvey -- With the Raconteur : Stotries One can Tell Again -- The Shouting Band from Idaho : A New and Very Lively Game / Clara J Denton -- Our Girls : Berry-Picking Immortals / Lida A Churchill -- Sanitarian : Care of the Complexion / Margaret Humphrey -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Holiday Fancy-Work / E A Fletcher -- All That is Left of the Homeward Bound -- When WOmen Vote : What Reforms Could be Effected Through Woman Suffrage / Russell Sage, Noah Davis, Lillie Devereux Blake, Jennie de la M. Lozier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Dead Love (Poem) / D J Robertson -- It Has Aye Done So Hitherto (Poem) / Philip Burroughs Strong -- What to Buy in China -- Ethics of the Mending-Basket / Christine Terhune Herrick -- Mad Bob Telford / John Lloyd Thomas -- The Most Effective Missionary Enterprise -- Our Growing Cities : Austin, Texas / J H Raymond Jr. Book. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Brock, H.M.; Wightman, W.E.; Peddie, T.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Moorsom, F.G.; Sutcliff, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Lloyd, Stanley; (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Grassick; Templeton; Timmins, Harry; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Buresch, Joe E. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 112 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Red-Shafted Flicker by Fenwick Lansdowne; Colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Classy one-page colour ad for James Richardson & Sons celebrates their 100th anniversary; Half-page colour ad for GE electric blankets; "We don't have to put up with rock 'n' roll"; Beverley Baxter column talks about Lord Altrincham; Nice one-page colour ad for RCA Victor hi-fi products; Joseph Tucker's Triumphant Retreat from the Twentieth Century - he lives in the log cabin he built in Kuroki, Saskatchewan 46 years ago - great photo-illustrated article; Rosa Tremblay and her Seven Sets of Twins! - photo-illustrated article; The Dance of the Bells (short story); What Kind of Man Was Herbert Norman? - did the brilliant diplomat take his own life? - photo-illustrated article; Hangover at the OK Coral - what would happen if Hollywood stars really drank that much alcohol?; Seven gorgeous colour pages of bird illustrations by Fenwick Lansdowne; The Comedian Who Made the House of Commons - Photo-illustrated article on John Pratt; William Lawrence and his wonderful windjammer; The Unseen World of Taste and Smell; Vintage NCR one-page colour ad features supermarket checkout with huge old cash register; Lovely colour-photo two-page ad for Del Monte canned foods; Eight-page colour celebration of the 100th anniversary of the House of Seagram; Eva-Lis Wuorio describes her most memorable meal; Nice one-page colour-photo Caterpillar ad features Manitoba's Highway 1E before and after it was modernized; Nostalgic colour-photo Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank ad shows classic teller scene with glass barrier along counter; Colour-photo one-page Canadian Club ad features Charles Fidani who snatches ribbons (rosettes) from the forelock of charging bulls in Saliers, France (The Ribbon Game); Attractive one-page ad for Philips Styline TVs; One-page ad for Dictaphone shows executive speaking into microphone in his impressive office; Nice colour-photo Old Vienna beer ad shows man reaching for tray; Pilkington Glass colour-photo ad with scene in home of E.C. Vandervoort, Kingston, Ontario; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Simmons Hide-A-Beds; One-page colour-photo ad for Youngstown Kitchens; Trans-Canada Air Lines one-page ad shows Venice scene; Crown & Anchor beer ad features colour photo of golf scene; Vintage colour-photo Samsonite luggage ad features beautiful Miss Canada 1957, Joan May Fitzpatrick; Vintage one-page A.V. Roe ad entitled "Belgium Chooses the Avro CF-100", with two photos; Back cover colour Coke ad with illustration in Germany's Black Forest; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Lansdowne, J.Fenwick (cover art); Hill, James; Macpherson, Duncan; Arbuckle, Franklin; Price, Arthur; King, Ronald (illustrator).…

Text of all three letters clear and entire. A well-written and well-informed correspondence relating to 'locomotive matters'. Letter One (14 October 1942): Manuscript. Foolscap, 4 pp. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. 'Knowing, and to some extent, at least, sharing' King's 'interest in loco matters', Pimm informs him that the Ministry of Supply 'have ordered 360 L.M.S. mixed traffics generally like the 227 that AW's [Armstrong Whitworth] bill as their last order'. Pimm's 'chief' has told him 'that lately he met some steel foundrymen & asked one of them if he had got the order for the castings. The man asked, in return, how many tons were there on the 227 A.W.'s "mill". My chief, who was estimator at Scotswood [Armstrong Whitworth headquarters], said 'about 22 tons', and the other man went on, 'well, as these engines there are 4 tons, a pair of driving-wheels & some miscellaneous castings, the trailing drivers are - 17 tons tensile - and the tender wheels were to have been solid C.L., chilled on the tread'. Pimm comments on this statement, and on the news of another order. Paragraph on 'two Scotswood men'. Two paragraphs discussing 'the future of steam on railways' and whether 'in this Country the diesel-electric can compete with it for main line & passenger work' ('the prime cost of diesel electrics is higher than its advocates admit, the maintenance is higher and the cost of spares is ruinous'). Full-page discussion of valve-gears. Recounts an anecdote relating to 'Blacklock, chief loco technical man at Scotswood'. Ends by discussing the relative merits of Pacifics ('the best engines the L.N.E.R. had for that district, bar none') and Atlantics ('they won't steam on Scotch coal'). Letter Two (4 November 1942). Typewritten. Foolscap, 3 pp. Good, though lightly creased and aged. Lengthy and informed discussion of 'the locomotive building firms'. Armstrong Whitworth 'had a plant much less antiquated than the rest of the plants in the country. It was bought after the last war, though lately for want of funds it was not renewed it was certainly the least obsolete of all'. Explains, 'in confidence', how the 'Loco. builders [.] kept going before the war': the smaller firms 'tendered for everything, 200 ton engines for Australia, and such like. The large firms protested, pointing out that the small firm couldn't execute the order and therefore shouldn't tender, but the small firm took up an attitude of offended dignity, saying how do you know what we can and cannot do. You don't want anybody to expand, you would keep all the best things for youself. So they continued to tender and to draw their share.' Comments on 'Gresley Pacifics' and 'the old S.W. engine men'. Letter Three (18 December 1942): Manuscript. 8vo, 2 pp. 'Can you not ease off a little. I know another H. G. officer, mang. Director of a firm, who I am sure is doing far too much, but he is so far in, so to speak, that he can't withdraw, or feels that he can't.' Gives reasons for his distrust of 'railway building costs'.…