Robin
In answer to question 2, Haresnape must be the better book. treat
anything by E F Carter with great suspicion.
Re question 3, this could be of interest to Twelveheads Press. Contact
me off list with some details of the proposed book; outline, extent,
illustrations, etc.
Michael Messenger
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>Three brief queries which I hope someone might be able to help me with:
>
>1. Has anyone a copy of the Ian Allan book "Railway Liveries: BR Steam
>1948-1968" (by Brian Haresnape, I think) that they could bear to sell? I've
>looked everywhere for either a new or secondhand copy with absolutely no
>success.
>
>2. On the same subject, what would subscribers to this list suggest was the
>better book for Grouping liveries, Haresnape's "Railway Liveries 1923-1947"
>or Ernest Carter's "Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948"?
>
>3. Finally, a few years ago I wrote a thesis titled "Images of Arcadia -
>Representations of Cornwall in the Pictorial Railway Poster 1900-1939". It's
>a detailed examination of the promotion of Cornwall by the GWR and LSWR/SR
>and is something I'm keen to get published.
>
>As a professional writer, I'm fully confident that it is of publishable
>quality. Does anyone have any suggestions where I might find someone willing
>to publish it? To approach the consumer magazines would require a
>significant chopping of the text, and therefore an unavoidable loss of the
>overall 'meaning'. Are there any 'academic' sources which might consider
>publishing it in full? It seems a bit of a waste being simply sat on my
>shelf.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Robin Johnson
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