The Tunnel: The Story of the World's First Tunnel Under a Navigable River Duig Beneath the Thames 1824-42.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, very good cloth hardcover shows mild shelfwear and soil to covers and page edges, names and dates written in ink at front endpaper and with some other light trace wear, in a very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows light soil and edgewear. 224 pages with black & white plates. Still an attractive copy of this work that "..recreates the tense, exciting battles with rocks and mud, quicksands and "nephitic gasses," fire and water, that made the "great national undertaking" a fiasco" but did eventually become of important use by trains of the East London line. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Item #26034
Price: $20.00