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66 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Most deadly cargo of the century? - hauling nerve gas across the south; Railroad news photos; Thoughts on 30 years of train watching, by David P. Morgan; Super Restaurant on the rails; Steam over India - many photos, long article; Nader's raiders have attacked the ICC - Ralph in the roundhouse; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Editorial - Biggest News from EMD since 1939; What EMD will have in its showrooms in 1966 - 2 pages of diagrams and photos; Photos of the Mississippi Maelstrom; Steam News Photos; Night photo of No. 45684 in England; Can New York City live happily ever after with 34,000 commuters? - what price rails to suburbia? - long article with illustrations and map; The Case of the Curved-Side Lightweight, introduced by the Cincinnati Car Company - Traction Classics; Photo Section - American Railroading... in 1908; Monarch Branch... after; Boarding the Century at Utica - excerpt from a 'Trains' reader letter; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Reliure toile. 407 pages. Rousseurs.
Author's signature to half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, front end paper missing and no bumping to corners. Fore-edge and lower edpes untrimmed. 111pp. The work begins with a twenty two page essay Defence of Modern Poetry followed by the six parts of Tragedy under Lucifer and it ends with a six page Epilogue. The author was Conservative MP for Oldham and then Stretford over the years 1931 to 1939.
New Russian Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Russian. 207, [1] p., 14 numerous color plates. Traditsionnie svadevnie ovriiadi Kirizov yugo-zapada ferganskoi dolini (konech XIX-nachalo XX vv.). Traditional Kirghiz clothes of the Ferghana Valley (the end of XIX.-early XX. centuries.).
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear to cover. 106 pages. "The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein which deals with the relationship between language and reality and aims to define the limits of science." [Wikipedia]
360 pages including index. An annotated bibliography of left wing novels about the lives of working people during the 20th century. Includes some collections of poetry, drama and short stories as well as a smattering of non-fictional material such as oral and life histories. Includes over 3,000 titles originally in some 50 languages by circa 1,500 authors from over 90 countries. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
bross. edit. ill. - con dedica autografa dell'autrice - alcune illustrazioni in b.n. nel testo
bross. edit. ill. - illustrazioni a colori fuori testo
tela edit. con titoli al dorso e sovrac. ill., rottura e piccola mancanza alla sovrac.
n. 167 in 16°, bross. edit. ill.
in 16°, bross. edit. ill., alcune sottolineature ad evidenziatore, penna e matita - prima edizione
72p. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. 4to. Original pictorial color wraps. PA PAMPH 20_1 BX5
This is a very good x-library copy in the original olive green bevelled cloth boards, elaborately decorated with an architectural scene in black and gilt. Library book plate on endpaper. Small faint handstamp to top right corner of all the plates. Preface and 43 pages of text and 5 pages of plate titles and descriptions + 30 full-page lithograph plates in black & white. The plates include full-page elevations, plans, and interior views of the panelling, fenestration, staircases, etc. All the mansions illustrated are large scale grand buildings in the Queen Anne, and other well known European styles:Jacobean, Louis XVI, Adams style, etc. The book has a new cloth spine, with a white printed paper title label on the spine. Inside the blue endpapers and many of the pages are chipped around the edges, but the binding is very tight. Paper tape repair to hinges. Page-edges gilt. 15" high X 10 1/2" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Two large fold-out maps (1906 and 1931) in excellent condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges. 301pp. A very detailed study of politics in Walsall over the first half of the 20th century. The maps show the area in 1906 and then the new ward boundaries in 1931. Contains photographs of the MPs over this time as the Labour Party gradually replaced the Liberal Party as the main national opposition to the Conservatives.
Percaline de l'?diteur. 126 pages. 17x25 cm.
Reliure demi-toile. 322 pages. Rousseurs.
Broch?. 248 pages. Couverture d?fra?chie. Dos factice. Rousseurs.
Broch?. 261 pages. Rousseurs.
No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly foxed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated pp. Fifteen paintings mainly of women by the artist plus discussion and descriptions. All text in French.
bross. edit. con sovrac. ill.
