Green & Silver de Rolt, L.T.C.:

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1949. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), 258pp. 24pp plates, 3 maps. Original green cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. There is some rubbing to the edges of the binding, and some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good plus condition.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968. Pages clean and bright, spotting on endpapers, boards tidy, chipping and rubbing to edges and spine of dust jacket.. Hard. Very Good/Good Minus. 8vo.

Ireland: Inland Waterway Association of Ireland, 1993. dustwrapper rubbed at corners and spine ends, book otherwise clean and sound.. Wonderful account of a waterborne journey by canal and river through Ireland in the late 1940s.. Third Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. Pp 275. Original green boards, silver lettering to spine, tight binding, with spotting to pages in original jacket which is clipped but not price clipped. Wear and rubbing to the top of the spine and rubbing to all edges of the jacket. .

Athlone: Inland Waterways Association of Ireland, 1993. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good plus/Very Good. Illustrated. A fresh clean copy in a an edge worn dust wrapper.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 275 pages, 645g. Green cloth boards with previous owners signature to front end-paper, FINE, in a Very Good edge rubbed d/w, especially top & toe of spine, in clear removable wrap. Illustrated with photographs by Angela Rolt.

1993. Athlone, Inland Waterways of Ireland, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. 275 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Some marks to the back cover. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of previous owner inscribed inside. Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February 1910 – 9 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways. Rolt studied at Cheltenham College and at 16 he took a job learning about steam traction, before starting an apprenticeship at the Kerr Stuart locomotive works in Stoke-on-Trent, where his uncle, Kyrle Willans was chief development engineer. His uncle bought a wooden horse-drawn narrow flyboat called Cressy… Leer más