146 x 224mm, 80pp. Paperback. Good to VG condition. No marks. Slight fraying to edges and bottom of spine. Rusting staples. Ring marks from cups on front cover. Otherwise a nice, tight copy. Signed in 1949 by the author, who self-published this work in 1947. Study in the design and development of the ‘Atlantic’ and other classes of steam locomotives introduced by the Great Northern Railway, subsumed into the LNER in 1923 under ‘grouping’ of the ‘Big Four’. Numerous B&W photographs and line drawings.
