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193026286New York NY: Long Island Railroad 1930. 76 pages; black and white illustrated throughout. Cover article by Samuel O. Dunn on How Improved Railway Service Has Increased Prosperity; articles specific to Long Island Railroad employees events news and pieces of local Long Island NY interest: commercial air service; the Duke's Laws printing sometimes called the East Hampton Book of Laws; article by Amy King Frieman on the Libraries of Suffolk County leading off with East Hampton's; also "Home Sweet Home" Passes First Milestone as Public Museum originally in the East Hampton Star; another piece with a suggestion that entire length of Long Island's north side be designated "Northern Boulevard"; a chapter in her ongoing Long Island Agriculture articles by Edith Loring Fullerton with full-page illustration of the Homestead at Experiment Station No. 1 and another full-page of a line-drawn "No. 1 Boiled Dinner Scrub-Oak Style." using Long Island-specific ingredients given August 7th 1906; also a piece concerning South Shore of Long Island Maintains Steady Growth During 1929 Large Scale Public Improvements Including Highways Parks and Parkways General Development Attract New Residents; also on Rabbit Raising A New Industry for Long Island; another on the historical Long Island Press Chapter II Dealing Briefly With Newspapers Founded Between 1810 and 1850 by Helen Jo Scott Mann; and other items. George Flatow editor. Approx. 6 3/4" x 10" size printed paper stapled cover no back wrap. Some darkening to cover papers few old pencil marks at top of first page; otherwise clean and in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Long Island Railroad paperback books
192222850New York: The New York Railroad Club 1922. 82 pages; recounting the semi-centenary of the club via historical reviews reports reminiscences by members; with also the reports on the state of the finances of the club and membership; with a useful Index of the Proceedings for the Fiscal Years 1895 to 1922 inclusive - giving details of discussions and reports authors dates given - all topics of concern to railroad management engineering safety product usefulness and design and more; at back is an index to advertisers which occupy about half this report - well over 100 of them - and often products are illustrated: American Car & Foundry Co.; Chicago Railway Equipment Co; Jenkins Bros.; Majestic Coal; The Okonite Co.; Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory; Standard Steel Car; Talmage Manufacturing Co.; Westinghouse Air Brake; Wyoming Shovel Works and many more; approx. 6" x 9"size; original stapled light orange printed & illustrated paper covers; light wear & dustiness staple residue; contents in very good condition; interesting railway engineering technology & social history ephemera from the early part of the 20th century. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The New York Railroad Club Paperback books
192614325Augusta GA: Commercial Printing Co 1926. 8vo. 32pp illus. Wraps. Very good. Promotional pamphlet. <br/><br/> Commercial Printing Co paperback books
1917292374Roanoke Va.: Stone Print. & Manufacturing Co. 1917. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In the publisher's light blue cloth with titling stamped in black and the logo in red to the upper board. On the pastedown it is noted that it was Loaned to "J. D. Griffith. Car Foreman". 182 pp. with illustrations of hand flag and lamp signals some printed in red or in green.~~"The rules herein set forth govern the railroads operated by the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. They take effect April 1 1917 superseding all previous rules and instructions inconsistent therewith."~~We are able to locate only one copy of this edition on OCLC. Very Good binding. [Stone Print. & Manufacturing Co.] unknown books
18661008228vo pamphlet original printed wrappers 20 pp. Wrappers with some tears and chips at the extremities a 1x3 piece missing from top of front wrapper notation on front wrapper front wrapper and title page partially detached small tear in the middle that runs through not affecting text or particularly visible middle crease number and library stamp on title page some minor soiling normal aging; still a good or better copy. The Philadelphia and Reading represents one of the nation's oldest railroads with its roots going back to 1832. The Atlantic and Great Western is a railroad that would merge and morph several times and become the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad. The present agreement is actually between several railroad companies and the goal appears to be to share rail and transport to Philadelphia. H.G.Leisenring's Steam Printing House, books
66432 card-mounted photographs; images each 5" x 8" mounts are 9" x 11 1/2" approximate size; views are of the same wreck appears to be a derailment of a locomotive and tender; track appears to be destroyed; no engine numbers readily discernible; some edge tips wear to mounts one with a split not intruding into the image; images a bit faded; no photographer noted; interesting and worth more research; Circa 1890; good condition. Good. unknown books
19283927San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1928. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Bright. Folds as issued. Guide for the prospective tourist that offers descriptions of four scenic routes offered by the Southern Pacific: Sunset Route Shasta Route Overland Route Lake Tahoe Line Golden State Route. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and a nice double-page pictorial map 36 cm x 18 cm at the center: 'The Best Way to See the Pacific Coast.' <br/><br/>"In this booklet are separate descriptions of Sunset Golden State Overland and Shasta Routes. At the end of the description of each route are several itineraries suggesting optional plans for seeing the points of interest on the Pacific Coast depending upon the route to be taken returning East. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
1920m1362Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. n.d. ca. 1920. Oblong quarto stiff illustrated wrappers with paper label string-tied iv pp. 22 leaves. Map and 22 color photographs of views along the Southern Pacific Railroad route over the Sierras mounted on individual pages with brief textual explanations. Very Good. Curt Teich & Co., n.d. [ca. 1920.] unknown books
2401Omaha Nebraska: Union Pacific System 1924. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. One of the pamphlets issued by the Union Pacific Railroad to promote travel destinations serviced by their trains. Illustrated in both black and white photographic images and full page color plates reproducing artistic renditions of the Golden State's beauty when it was still a wide open paradise filled with promise. paperback books
189946027New York: Macmillan Company 1899. First Edition. 12mo 17.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in red yellow white and gilt top edge gilt; vi334pp. Board extremities a bit rubbed and corners bumped yellow portion of upper cover very slighly effaced else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "For Hollis W Field / With the compliments of / Samuel Merwin." One of two novels produced by the Merwin-Webster collaboration this on the railway industry which had a notable effect on Frank Norris's own novel "The Octopus" published two years later. WRIGHT III 3708. Macmillan Company unknown books
48090Buffalo: Railroad Trainmasters of North America n.d. Quarto bifolium. Opens to printed broadside 11" x 17". Printed in black and orange ink; text in four columns. Original folds else fine. Wartime polemic from the editor of the Railroad Workers' Journal arguing that the closed shop is tantamount to the "yellow dog" contract in reverse benefitting only organizers and not the rank and file. Undated but clearlyi a wartime production ca 1940s. Railroad Trainmasters of North America unknown books
2623Berkeley Calif.: University of California Chronicle 1922. . 8vo self-wrappers; rubberstamp of the California State Library Law Dept. on the first page of text and on the back cover. Five holdings in OCLC. Off-print from the "University of California Chronicle" Vol. XCXIV No. 4 pp. 465-496 [Berkeley, Calif.]: University of California Chronicle, 1922. unknown books
197651261Kennett Square PA: by the Author 1976. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 36pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Faint foxing to title page else Fine. Brief illustrated historical guide to Chester County landmarks on the Underground Railroad. by the Author unknown books
183255449Boston: J. E. Hinckley and Co 1832. First edition 8vo pp. 87 1; uncut and stitched as issued; tables in the text; without the folding map and lithograph plan as called for in some OCLC listings; contemporary annotations at the back in Acts of Incorporation; very good. Includes a geological memoir of the area between Massachusetts and Narragansett Bays. American Imprints 11443. <br/><br/> J. E. Hinckley and Co unknown books
18826056791882. Signed by A.T. Hall and by Parke on the verso. With circular stamp of Atchinson Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad dated April 1 1882 Santa Fe New Mexico "Permitted to stop over" added. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
187018078np 1870. Octavo sheet folded into panels totaling 8pp. Unfolded the verso consists of a Map of Boston Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad and Connections. Light wear a few short fold splits without loss. Good or so. unknown books
193143321London: Waterlow & Sons Ltd. 1931. First edition. A near fine copy. 1 sheet. Folio. A canceled issue 500 pound note of the 1200000 pounds sterling 5 per cent second mortgage debentures for the Buenos Ayres Central Railway which was first granted a concession in 1894. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd. unknown books
18618107baGoderich Ontario: Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway 1861. Book. Very good condition. No Binding. Railroads; partly printed document Goderich August 17 1861 receipt for barrels of flour for delivery to Buffalo NY; signed by G. P. Broughton B. and L. H. RR. Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway unknown books
18808642Chicago 1880. 27pp stitched. Original printed wrappers. Very Good. unknown books
1901TB30276Chicago: Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. 1901. First Edition. An ex-library copy in its original light brown cloth covered flexible boards with a mult-colored printed front board. A small octavo of 7 3/4 by 5 inches with a 1/4" closed tear to the cloth at the head of the spine a library gift plate on the front paste down library stamps on several pages and call numbers written on the title and copyright pages. Without a dust jacket. 114 pages followed by an illustration of an earlier work of art. Illustrated throughout with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art. Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. hardcover books
194069647New York 1940. Paperback. Very Good. 126p. White wrapper. 31cm. Some cover soil and browning. Annual Report Form A Large and Medium Steam Roads and Switching and terminal Companies. <br/><br/> paperback books
19094239Paddington Station London: Great Western Railway Company 1909. 72pp. Profusely photo illustrated. Folding map at rear printed in 4 colors. Finely bound by Morrell in 1/2 dark blue calf brown calf spine label over marbled boards hinges lightly rubbed. An appendix includes a schedule of railway ticket prices. Great Western Railway Company hardcover books
1962SGG313B-45Los Angeles CA: Interurbans Electric Railway Publications 1962. Paperback. Very Good. Series: Interurbans Vol. 20 No. 1; Interurbans Special No. 16 pt. 4A. Pamphlet. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 40 pp. Many halftone photographic illustrations maps; text clean unmarked. Printed wrappers in red and black vignette advertisements on back stapled three-hole punched; binding square and tight minor soiling head and foot of spine bumped light shelf wear. Very good. Vol. 20 No. 1 of Interurbans Magazine edited by Ira L. Ewett Raymond E. Younghans Frank Barnes Librarian. This Special Edition focuses on the history of the Pasadena Long Beach and San Pedro streetcars and railways. Includes chronologies histories and statistics for each line as well as extensive historic photographic images of the cars from the early teens through the 1940s; also with historic maps of each line. The Pacific Electric Railway founded by Henry Huntington was the largest railway network in the world in the 1920s. It connected Los Angeles with many surrounding cities the first of which was Long Beach. Interurbans Electric Railway Publications paperback books
18808710Cleveland: Short & Forman 1880. Original printed wrappers stitched 54pp. Text illus. Light wear Very Good. Much data on the Road's growth in freight business particularly between Chicago and New York; financial data engineers' report on road mileage freight forwarded and received performance of locomotive engines passenger traffic by station and historical financial data. FIRST EDITION. Short & Forman unknown books
1864726451864. Paperback. Very Good. Manchester and Lawrence Railroad Corporation. Five Annual Reports of the Directors for 1864 1868 1870 1874 & 1886. Concord first three or Manchester last two: 1864 1868 1870 1874 and 1886. 10-20 pages per report. Wrappers. 21-23cm. Vertical crease on two reports. <br/><br/> paperback books
