Verlag: Penguin Group (Canada), 1996
ISBN 10: 0140045902 ISBN 13: 9780140045901
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Secker and Warburg, 1975
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Acceptable. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. The book is perfectly readable and fit for use, although it shows signs of previous ownership. The spine is likely creased and the cover scuffed or slightly torn. Textbooks will typically have an amount of underlining and/or highlighting, as well as notes. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.
Verlag: Book Club Associates, Kibdib, 1974
Anbieter: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The Story of the Tay Bridge Disaster - Originally published in England in 1965 - now republished in 1975 by arrangement with Secker & Warburg.
Verlag: Book Club Associates London, 1975
Anbieter: Grampian Books PBFA, Est. 1990, ELLON, ABDNS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
BCA printing of publisher's 1975 re-issue. xii +220pp; 12 illustrations. Maroon boards. Owner's bookplate to front free endpaper (flyleaf). In worn dustwrapper with small area of loss at head of spine. Overall G condition. [An account of the major Scottish railway disaster of 1879, The present 1975 edition has a new foreword by Prebble and new illustrations].
Verlag: BCA (Book Club Associates), 1975
Anbieter: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Verlag: Book Club Associates, 1975
Anbieter: Allyouneedisbooks Ltd, Westbury, WILTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: vg+/vg. vg+ in vg dw Book Club 1975 new foreword and illus edition hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
Verlag: Penguin Books 1979, 1979
Anbieter: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Neuseeland
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Verlag: Book Club Associates, London, 1975
Anbieter: Bay Books, Penzance, Vereinigtes Königreich
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New Foreword and New Illustrations. Fascinating history, covering the long years of Construction, brief triumph and the terrible night in 1879 when the central span collapsed and a train with 75 passengers was lost. Illustrated with B&W Photos. Burgundy cloth cover with Gilt Lettering to spine. 219 Pages, 420g, 8 3/4" Tall. No inscriptions. Slight edge wear to jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Verlag: BCA (Book Club Associates), London, 1975
Anbieter: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good ++/Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dustjacket Good. Re-Issue. 220 pages. Dustjacket has wear with small chips and rubs to spine-ends and corners, light edge-wear with small creases. Hardback binding has light wear with small creases to spine-ends, light wear to edges and boards' corners. Page-edges and margins lightly yellowed o/w pages clean and sound.
Verlag: Secker & Warburg, London, 1956
Anbieter: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1956. First edition. ix, 219pp., 1 page of acknowledgments, frontispiece and 8 black and white illustrations. John Prebble (1921-2001) was a journalist and author of both novels and works of non-fiction, many centred around Scotland. On December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone on board. This is the true story of that disastrous night, told from multiple viewpoints: The station master waiting for the train to arrive - who sees the approaching lights simply vanish; The bored young boys watching from their bedroom window who witness the disaster; The dreamer who designed the bridge which eventually destroyed him; The old highlanders who professed the bridge doomed from the outset; The young woman on the ill-fated train, carrying a love letter from the man she hoped to marry. The book is bound in the original maroon cloth covered boards with silver titling on the spine. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The clipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and small pieces missing from the corners and bottom of the spine. About 1/4" is missing from the top of the spine, the top rear edge, and top front edge near the fore corner. There are tears of about 1" on the bottom front and rear edges and several smaller tears on the edges.
Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London, 1956
Anbieter: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket by Peter Dunbar (illustrator). 1st Edition. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of colourful jacket and spine, 1" loss to bottom spine, corners rubbed and slightly bruised, price very neatly cut out, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 221pp. Anglo Scottish Canadian historian John Prebble's (1915-2001), masterly and classic description of the terrible failure of the Tay Railway Bridge. The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28th December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge, designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, used lattice girders supported by iron piers, with cast iron columns and wrought iron cross-bracing. In a cost cutting exercise, the piers were narrower and their cross bracing was less extensive and robust than on previous similar designs by Bouch. Bouch had sought expert advice on wind loading when designing a proposed rail bridge over the Firth of Forth, as a result of that advice he had made no explicit allowance for wind loading in the design of the Tay Bridge. There were other flaws in detailed design, in maintenance, and in quality control of castings, all of which were, at least in part, Bouch's responsibility. Bouch died less than a year after the disaster, his reputation ruined. Future British bridge designs had to allow for wind loadings of up to 56 pounds per square foot. Bouch's design for the Forth Bridge was not used. Quite a scarce book.
Verlag: Martin Secker Warburg Ltd, 1975
ISBN 10: 0436386038 ISBN 13: 9780436386039
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.