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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 2002 reprint (3rd printing), 522pp, copiously illustrated with charts & diagrams within the text and including 2 sections of colour plates and a fold-out appendix chart to the rear (not creased). A Good+ copy with browning/foxing to endpapers, title page & contents page along with some spotting to text block edges. The text & plates remain clean & unmarked throughout and the binding firm (some moderate reading use indicated). The red cloth boards have some hints of wear to the gilt-stamped spine but very little trace of use to the covers. The dust wrapper is browned & foxed to the verso but the exterior remains in pleasing condition with just a trace of edge-wear to crown of spine and only light surface rubbing. No inscriptions or labels present. Please see 16 pictures attached for a closer look at content and condition.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. At its core is David's telling of his work in South Africa during the late 1970s and 1980s which led to the conversion of a 25NC 4-8-4 into the locomotive which became known as 'The Red Devil' and was in a very small group of locomotives which were the world's most efficient and powerful, on a weight to power output basis. But there is much more, including earlier experiments in South Africa on a 19D 4-8-2, and his subsequent work on the American ACE 3000 project, and on QJ's at Datong Works in China. Linking all these is his relationship with Dante Porta who offered considerable advice and guidance. There is a huge amount of technical detail on steam power, and advanced steam power in parti.…

hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Includes dust jacket. 2002 reprint.