Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Tampa Division, Time Table No. 3...Sunday, September 10, 1972
Paperback. 8.5 x 8.75 inches, wraps, 32 pp, map on rear cover showing the railroad's lines in Florida. Gentle vertical crease.
Trains & Railroads
Delaware & Hudson: The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent Was a Canal Network to Transport Coal
Berkeley, Ca. Howell-North Books, 1968. Third printing. Hardcover. Third printing, 1968. 4to, cloth hardcover, xii + 476 pp. No dust jacket. Generoiusly illustrated throughout with b & w photographs, maps, and other graphics. Handsome color frontis, and decorated end papers. Indexed. Book is Good, with some light age toning to.....
The Rutland Road
Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1964. Hardcover. Inscribed by Shaughnessy! Hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, 1964, quarto, 368pp., illustrated in b&w and color. Book VG+ with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked, but with foxing to top edge of text.....
Casey Jones' Locker: Railroad Historiana
San Francisco: Hesperian House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 1959. First edition. Hardcover, 192 pp. 106 b&w illustrations. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate to front flyleaf. DJ is affixed to book with tape. Rubbing and soiling to DJ.
Southern Pacific-Santa Fe Tehachapi
San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1986. Third printing. Hardcover. Gilt stamped black cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [9" x 11.25"], illustrated in b&w and color. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has edgewear that includes small tears.....
The Railways of Britain: An Historical Introduction
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1961, hardcover with purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 264pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with toning to spine, hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers faintly off-set, text clean and unmarked with some.....
The Victorian Railway
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1991. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 416 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Konzeption Und Gestaltung: Skreber; Gesamtherstellung
Dusseldorf: Druckerei Heinrich Winterscheidt, 1997. Hardcover. Silver reflective boards. Book is tight and clean, full of full-page B&W and color illustrations, many of which are paintings of trains. Text in German. Mysterious, unpaginated book. Quarto.
The White Front Cars of San Francisco
Glendale, CA: Interurbans, 1978. Revised. Hardcover. Revised edition, 1978, hardcover, green cloth boards with dust jacket, quarto, 474pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked, but has mild mold odor. DJ VG with mild wave to top of panels, rubbing, in.....
Erie to Conneaut by Trolley; History of the Cleveland & Erie Railway Company
Erie: Published by the author, 1968. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1968. Softcover, 103 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, covers with light soiling or wear. With handwritten signed letter from Springirth laid in. Uncommon book.
Trolleys of the Gem City
Erie, PA: Published by the author, 1969. First edition. Stiff Wraps. First Edition. c.1969. Stiff wraps. 4to. 115pp. Very Good+. Mild general shelfwear, mild soil to wraps.
Twilight of the Monongahela: The Railway's Last Year 1992-1993
Flushing, NY: H&M Productions II Inc., 1994. Paperback. Paperback, 1994, oblong quarto, 88pp., illustrated in color. Book near fine with mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Diesels Over Donner: Mountain Soul of the Southern Pacific
Glendale: Interurban Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, cloth in dust jacket, heavily illustrated (in color), clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
History of the Canadian National Railways
New York: Macmillan, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Stated first printing, 1973, hardcover, cloth boards with dustjacket, octavo, 538pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild toning, edgewear that includes a small closed tear to rear.....
The Wick and Lybster Light Railway
Wick, England: Iain Sutherland, no date (ca. 1987). Hardcover. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [8" x 11"], 65pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, previous owner's gift inscription to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ small tear to top front.....
Cassell's Railways of the World: Volumes One and Two
New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co., no date. Hardcover. Two volume set, no date, hardcovers with blue cloth boards, large octavos, 728pp., illustrated in b&w. Books VG with edgewear to spine ends and corners, rubbing and soil, bindings tight, texts clean and unmarked. No DJs.
The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. First Printing. Wraps. First paperback edition. Quarto, wraps, very good, light wear to bottom right corner. 170 pp, illustrated, much in color. The route goes from Elkhorn City in KY all the way through Virginia, North Carolina and into Spartanburg SC.
The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. First Printing. Wraps. First paperback edition. Quarto, wraps, near fine, touch of wear; 170 pp, illustrated, much in color. The route goes from Elkhorn City in KY all the way through Virginia, North Carolina and into Spartanburg SC.
A Fast Life on the Modern Highway; Being a Glance into the Railroad World from a New Point of View
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1874. Cloth hardcover with gilt titles and gilt decorations on the front cover and spine, 220 pp. + ads., illustrated, Good copy, a bit of a lean to the book, pencil-notes on the front flyleaf and the first blank.....
Second Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Terre Haute and Alton Rail-Road Company to the Stockholders, with A Map, showing the connecting lines o the road to St. Louis, Missouri, presented January 1st, 1855
New York: John W. Amerman, Printer, 1855. Paperback. Published 1855, green printed wraps, 17 pp and folding map in color, image measures 14 x 7 inches. Very good copy, mild discoloration to wraps. OCLC locates two copies in institutions: Columbia University (NY) and the American Antiquarian Society. Text has seemingly.....
American Flyer - Toy Train Catalog (The A. C. Gilbert Company)
New Haven, Conn. The A. C. Gilbert Company, 1956. Original Wraps. Illustrated Wraps. No date. c.1956. Staple-Bound. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Heavily illustrated in full-color. Good. Occasional chipping to edges with light loss, 1-inch tear to front wraps near spine, spine reinforced with clear tape, light soil.
Santa Fe, Time Schedules of Principal Trains, April 27 - September 28, 1952
(Chicago): Rand McNally, 1952. Paperback. 9 inches tall, 32 pp, schedules plus map.
Through the Window. Number One: the Great Western Railway From Paddington to Penzance (Cornish Riviera Route)
London: The Great Western Railway, 1927. Second printing. Paperback. First issued 1924. 8vo, pictorial wraps, very good with light wear, soil, darkening and dustiness to covers, contents very good. 125 pp, illustrations and maps throughout.
Nickel Alloys in Railway Equipment
New York: The International Nickel Company, Inc. Original Wraps. No date. ca.1938. Original Wraps. Staple-Bound. 4to. 12pp. Illus. Very Good. Light wear, mild creasing/tanning to wraps, "July 1938" printed on front wraps.
Lionel (Catalog)
New York: The Lionel Corp. 1953. Original Wraps. 1953 Lionel train catalog. Illustrated Wraps. Staple-Bound. Oblong 4to. 38pp. Illus. Very Good. Light shelfwear, mild chipping to spine, 2-inch loss to rear wraps near spine, light soil.