VINCENT,WILLIAM:: SEEN FROM THE RAILWAY PLATFORM - FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES

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VINCENT,WILLIAM: : SEEN FROM THE RAILWAY PLATFORM - FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES

LONDON.T. FISHER UNWIN,LTD.,1919.

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UK,8vo HB,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn. Publisher's sharp-cornered,original red cloth bds with black ink printed lettering and a slightly faded spine/backstrip and off-set foxing to both free endpapers (from the pastedowns).Some light speckling to rear bd and to extremities of front bd but to a much lesser degree.Top edges slightly dust-soiled and slightly aged/ toned,fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and also slightly aged/toned too; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB,1st edn,7-206pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, an introduction (historical sketch of the rise of the railway bookstall),ten (X) chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author's b/w portrait photographic illustrated frntis with tissue guard,title page,and dedication (to Right Hon. Lord Rothschild). Reminiscences of the author from boyhood to his working life and to retirement of fifty years of bookstall working and management.Author worked at country stations of Tiverton Junction,Didcot, provincial towns: Taunton,Swansea,Reading, at a London terminus (Euston),and his travelling experiences etc. on the railways. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB,1st edn.

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