Books on the CB&SCR by Colm Creedon - worth getting?

[Mol_PMB]

One of my ebay searches recently turned up an Irish railway book I hadn't seen before:

Note that this is volume 3, and despite the cover price of £6.90 the seller wants £50 for a tatty secondhand copy.

A search elsewhere has found volume 2 is also available from a different seller, cover price of £4.50 and a price of £70!

I can't find volume 1 anywhere.

Are these books good? Does the quality of the content justify the high prices being asked? Or is it just a case of 'it's scarce - so it must be valuable'?

I already have the Ernie Shepherd book and the Chris Larkin book on the CBSCR.

[Westcorkrailway]

25 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

One of my ebay searches recently turned up an Irish railway book I hadn't seen before:

Note that this is volume 3, and despite the cover price of £6.90 the seller wants £50 for a tatty secondhand copy.

A search elsewhere has found volume 2 is also available from a different seller, cover price of £4.50 and a price of £70!

I can't find volume 1 anywhere.

Are these books good? Does the quality of the content justify the high prices being asked? Or is it just a case of 'it's scarce - so it must be valuable'?

I already have the Ernie Shepherd book and the Chris Larkin book on the CBSCR.

In terms of reading material, You’re not going to get much better. Especially that 3rd one. Which is written less like a history and more like a week by week diary of what was happening in the last 10 years of the West Cork. The book is dated. Handrawn diagrams and not great quality photos. But definitely my favourite series of books of all time! 
 

if you want them for a good price. Just be patient. “Abe books” usually has them at a decent price. A copy of the 3rd book sold on here in the last year for a tenner! I purchased mint copies at the Donegal meuseum once for peanuts! 
 

the first one is the rarest but also there is a free scan of the whole book online here 

https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/16/colm-creedon-chronicler-of-west-corks-railways/1986-colm-creedon-history-the-cork-bandon-and-south-coast-railway-vol-1-1849-1899/
 

His Macroom book is also good, but by far the most rare being published in 1960. He was working in a remake of it before he passed away. 
 

Colm creedon was a fascinating man. The west cork railway had a magazine run for a few years written and edited by him. It’s my dream to release these 3 books as one book with updated editing, photos and such 

 

[Mol_PMB]

4 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

In terms of reading material, You’re not going to get much better. Especially that 3rd one. Which is written less like a history and more like a week by week diary of what was happening in the last 10 years of the West Cork. The book is dated. Handrawn diagrams and not great quality photos. But definitely my favourite series of books of all time! 
 

if you want them for a good price. Just be patient. “Abe books” usually has them at a decent price. A copy of the 3rd book sold on here in the last year for a tenner! I purchased mint copies at the Donegal meuseum once for peanuts! 
 

the first one is the rarest but also there is a free scan of the whole book online here 

https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/16/colm-creedon-chronicler-of-west-corks-railways/1986-colm-creedon-history-the-cork-bandon-and-south-coast-railway-vol-1-1849-1899/
 

His Macroom book is also good, but by far the most rare being published in 1960. He was working in a remake of it before he passed away. 
 

Colm creedon was a fascinating man. The west cork railway had a magazine run for a few years written and edited by him. It’s my dream to release these 3 books as one book with updated editing, photos and such 

 

Wonderful - many thanks for the advice. The third one is also of most interest to me in terms of the time period covered. 

The ebay seller sent me quite a reasonable discount offer on the third one so I might get that, and see if I can pick up the others more cheaply. Thanks for the link to a 'free' volume 1. 

The only one I found on Abe books at present is the £70 volume 2 which is a bit steep for me!

[Westcorkrailway]

6 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Wonderful - many thanks for the advice. The third one is also of most interest to me in terms of the time period covered. 

The ebay seller sent me quite a reasonable discount offer on the third one so I might get that, and see if I can pick up the others more cheaply. Thanks for the link to a 'free' volume 1. 

The only one I found on Abe books at present is the £70 volume 2 which is a bit steep for me!

Depends on how desperate you are for it. Time is money. But you can definitely get a better deal elsewhere. I might send some interesting exerts from it this evening via PM. See if it’s worth it for you! 

[Irishswissernie]

I've got Vol 2. Its not up to the standard finish/production wise of Vol 1 but plenty of information. I'll scan a few pages and put them on here tomorrow.

[Mol_PMB]

Many thanks both, much appreciated.

[Irishswissernie]

[Mol_PMB]

Many thanks Ernie. It looks like these books have a lot of interesting snippets and photos.

I've decided to buy the Vol 3 on ebay (at a good discount) and will keep an eye out for Vol 2 at a better price.

Cheers, 

Mol