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194841915New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1948. 1st Edition. Black cloth with silver stamping. Blue dust jacket. VG slight lean/VG spine panel sunned/average wear. 10 304 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover books
1981197204Los Angeles California n.p. 1981. 1981. Folding 6 panel brochure 8" x 22". 11 tinted color photographs; map by D.W. Pontius; blue background on front panel. Very good. Scarce. Includes advertisements for Mt. Lowe Orange Empire Trolley trip to Redlands Balloon trip Old Mission Trip. No Binding. Very Good. Los Angeles, California [n.p.] 1981. unknown books
1898045234Honolulu: Gazette Print 1898. 39p. original stiff printed wrappers folded tables wrapper chipped along the spine. Gazette Print unknown books
186924607NY: The railway; Phair & Co. Printers 1869. First edition. 8vo.; 7 5 36pp. Large folding map separated along one fold 34 by 29 inches with some outlines colored. Original printed wrappers front wrapper chipped and detached else very good. A circular and special report on the Burlington Cedar Rapids & Minnesota Railway Company including its articles of incorporation. <br/><br/> The railway; Phair & Co., Printers unknown books
40450San Francisco: Ocean Shore Railroad n. d. Original illustrations ca. 1900-1905. Reprinted on white printed paper. White paper printed with black ink. Creasing no hard creases just warped to paper light wear. A VG set of copies. Two sheets printed recto only. Two large map illustrations. 2 sizes. 14" x 8-1/2" & 17" x 11" <br/><br/>"The Ocean Shore Railroad was intended to be built from San Francisco to Santa Cruz California via a route along the Pacific coastline. Incorporated in May 1881 with construction beginning in 1905 at both ends but the line was never completed. The April 18 1906 earthquake caused major damage and delayed completion of the railroad. Trackage within the city of San Francisco was electrified while the rest of the line was operated with steam locomotives and later with self-propelled railcars. Despite significant passenger patronage especially on weekends the railroad never recovered from losses in the 1906 earthquake and failed to attract enough freight traffic to cover increasing deficits." Wikipedia. These reprinted map blueprints look to have been done before the 1906 earthquake. Ocean Shore Railroad unknown books
40367Los Angeles: Pacific Electric n. d. Ca. 1927. Blue and orange lettering printed on beige paper. Modest wear to edges slight age-toning to paper small chip to top left corner no losses small crease to bottom left corner. Withal a VG example. Broadside printed recto only. Blue and white photographic image of Lindbergh. 17-1/2" x 6" <br/><br/>Colonel Charles Lindbergh made the 3600 mile trip from New York to Paris in 1927 and won instant fame as the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. From the beginning Lindbergh's fame and success introduced chaos and tragedy into the pilot's life. A very private family the Lindberghs were devastated at the kidnapping and murder of their oldest child Charles Jr. at just 2 years old. So grand was the trial that the pilot and his wife exiled themselves to England the year that the murderer was put to death. Though he steadfastly denounced "womanizing" in other pilots and men decades after his death it was found that the famous "Lone Eagle" had fathered 7 children out of wedlock with three European mistresses. As public as his private life now is the man was notoriously outspoken as an advocate of keeping the US out of world conflict as the country formally entered WWII. Nevertheless the pilot strongly supported the war effort after the attack on Pearl Harbor and flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Lindbergh had many talents aviation being just one of them. The pilot designed a watch that would make navigation easier for pilots after his transatlantic adventure. He was also a bestselling author after his novel "WE" was introduced to the public in 1927 the same year of the flight. a very busy man and was an instant hit. In 1930 Lindbergh invented a perfusion pump known as the "Model T" to make heart surgeries possible. He strongly advocated developments in science and aviation. However he lost much of his popularity during the beginning of WWII when denouncing the United States' involvement in the war - much of his speeches being deemed anti-Semitic. This belief was not without some sound reasoning as even in his diary the pilot states that we must limit our Jewish influence. that it was too bad about a high level of Jewish percentage in the total population as reactions "invariably occur" because "a few Jews of the right type are I believe an asset to any country". Charles Lindbergh died of lymphoma in Maui in August of 1974. A few statements in regards to the publisher of this welcoming broadside - as a privately owned mass transit system Pacific Electric was probably one of the best-known and most extensive systems in the United States. This Southern California company consisted of streetcars light rail and buses - and was the largest electric railway system in the world by the 1920s. The railroad itself was created in 1901 by Henry Huntington a Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Huntington wanted to consolidate travel in Southern California by creating a universal bus rail and trolley system where tickets could be interchangeable and therefore travel less hectic. This handbill advertises Charles Lindbergh's visit to Los Angeles on September 20 1927 as part of his 48-state tour of the country following his historic cross-Atlantic flight. The broadside includes a list of "reduced fares" to Los Angeles; information regarding the parade downtown as well as the Public Reception at the Los Angeles Coliseum at 3:30pm. 2 institutional holdings located on OCLC University of Southern CA & Yale. Rare in the trade. Pacific Electric unknown books
18904908Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. Art-Printing Works 1890. 245pp. Sextodecimo 15.5 cm Gray printed wraparound wrappers. Good only. Damaged front cover wear and creasing to front and rear leaves. Fold-out map at front is damaged and incomplete. A description of the county opens this work 18 pages and is followed by Township plats with lists of sections. The Associated Railway Land Department of Florida was composed of four railway companies and two land development companies. Early Florida development work with dozens of maps.<br/><br/>"Lee County was named in honor of the gallant General Robert E. Lee and was formed and organized as a county in the spring of 1887. It was formerly part of Monroe County with its county site at Key West which was 185 miles distant from the northern limits of the county. The present Lee County was until quite recently uninhabited by the white man. It was home of the deer turkey and the indolent but friendly Seminole." - p.3. Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works unknown books
18904910Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. Art-Printing Works 1890. 80pp. Sextodecimo 15.5 cm Gray printed wraparound wrappers. About very good. Wear to covers. Complete with the fold-out map. A description of the county opens this work 8 pages and is followed by Township plats with lists of sections. The Associated Railway Land Department of Florida was composed of four railway companies and two land development companies. Early Florida development work with dozens of maps.<br/><br/>"That particular district of peninsular Florida so long and so favorably known as the Lake Region is now principally embraced in Lake County. The central figure in the county is Lake Harris covering about eighteen square miles of territory surrounded for the most part with high beautiful banks forming the site of several charming towns the adjacent territory presenting many pleasing orange groves villas and gardens." - p.3. Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works unknown books
18904909Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. Art-Printing Works 1890. 39pp. Sextodecimo 15.5 cm Gray printed wraparound wrappers. About very good. Wear to covers. Complete with the both fold-out maps. A description of the county opens this work 8 pages and is followed by Township plats with lists of sections. The Associated Railway Land Department of Florida was composed of four railway companies and two land development companies. Early Florida development work with dozens of maps.<br/><br/>"This county has maintained its attractions to immigrants from the early settlement of the peninsula. The remarkable productiveness of every class of lands has gathered and kept new comers within its bounds with so much of the contentment of thrift that the population has grown upwards of 20000." - p.3. Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works unknown books
1870WRCAM34144San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co. 1870. Single stereocard 3 1/2 x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good. A very attractive single stereocard image of the Central Pacific Railroad's "Long Ravine Trestle Bridge." The bridge is located in Nevada County California in the Sierra Nevada mountain range just west of the Nevada state line. The image comes from a set sixty-two stereocards created by Thomas Houseworth & Company for the railroad some time after the railroads completion in 1869. According to the website of the Central Pacific Railroad www.cprr.org the Houseworth company produced more than one hundred such stereocards for the railroad including more than a dozen views of the 878- foot long Trestle Bridge. A nice early stereoscopic image of an engineering wonder from an important American railroad. Thomas Houseworth & Co. unknown books
184122451New-York: Printed by Egbert Hedge Railroad Journal Office. 120 Nassau Street 1841. 34 2 blank 2 15 appendix 1 2 blank pp. Attractive green foldout map of the State of New York a few short splits along folds one short closed tear repaired with small piece of tape on verso. Original printed wrappers small institutional paper label with reinforced spine. Stitched blindstamp at bottom of title page. Else Very Good. <br/>AI 41-3849 4. OCLC 39816544 4 -serial. Printed by Egbert Hedge, Railroad Journal Office. 120 Nassau Street unknown books
1888WRCAM13837Philadelphia 1888. 38pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps darkened and chipped top margin considerably chipped with no loss of text old fold. A decent copy printed on bad paper. In a folding cloth box leather label. The Mercantile Trust Company makes claims to security in property of the Railway including holdings in New Orleans. The property is described in detail. Also printed are the articles of the new mortgage and documents of certification of New York and Louisiana. hardcover books
185822429Cincinnati: Gazette Company Steam Printing House 1858. Original printed wrappers stitched. 37 1 blank pp. Folding table. Light wear Very Good plus. <br/><br/> The Directors blame "the continued and unusual navigable condition of the Ohio river during nearly all of the year" for the parlous condition of the Railroads. Despite the attractiveness of transportation by water the Directors express high hopes for the future joint operations of the Companies. Tables and much data on the companies' rolling stock and financial condition are included. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Not in BRE Sabin Eberstadt Thomson OH. Gazette Company Steam Printing House unknown books
1882WRCAM51543Boston: George H. Ellis 1882. 20pp. Original pink printed wrappers front detached. Light tanning else clean. Good. A report charting the progress of railroad construction and relating financial details for the Mexican Central Railway. The company founded in 1880 completed its main line from Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez in 1884 as well as several other branch lines across Mexico by 1890. Not in OCLC. George H. Ellis unknown books
1948240N.p. 1948. Near fine. Poster 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear. Advertising poster for the Santa Fe Railroad featuring a Native American child etching the slogan "Santa Fe All the Way" in the sand with a stick. The stylish Santa Fe locomotive is barreling past in the background its engine a sleek red. The railroad produced numerous promotional posters in the 1940s many of them -- such as this one -- quite striking. No artist is identified on this work. unknown books
1882WRCAM8164Np 1882. 15pp. Original printed wrappers. Some soiling else very good. unknown books
199240447Chico CA: Sacramento Northern Railway 1992. Reprint. White paper printed with black ink. Stapled. Fine. 14 pp. Charts printed throughout. Oblong format: 16" x 10-1/2" <br/><br/> Sacramento Northern Railway unknown 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
194345907Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company 1943. First Edition. 16mo 12.5cm.; publisher's drap printed staplebound card wrappers; 36pp. Card wrappers rather rubbed along extremities wrappers and textblock rather dust-soiled else Very Good and sound. Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company unknown books
191472732Albany: Press of the Brandow Printing Co 1914. Hardcover. Good. illustrations 186p. Hardcover Black cloth. 16cm. Soiling on outer leaves. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Press of the Brandow Printing Co hardcover books
1929021229Chicago and North Western. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo 180pp. 46pp. Supplment to Book of Rules 1935 bound in at front. Owner's name very good. . Chicago and North Western hardcover 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
19021511San Francisco 1902. Very good. 120pp. including twenty plates many folding. 12mo. Original limp calf front cover gilt lettered. Light wear to spine and extremities. Internally quite clean. A very interesting early 20th-century manual and rule book for personnel in the Maintenance and Way Department of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Contained here are rules and instructions for a wide array of railroad employees including roadmasters bridge superintendants trackmen bridgemen and other watchmen. The principal portion of the text comprises nearly 270 general rules and regulations such as those governing the adjustment of woodtruss bridges lining and surfacing track keeping clear rights of way and establishing standards for numerous other basic repairs on track ties signals and other critical infrastructure. A short appendix contains laws from the several states in which Southern Pacific operated regarding the accidental killing of livestock by trains and railroad employees. At the rear are twenty plates many folding with reference diagrams for track and other maintenance projects.<br /><br />This edition is revised from the first edition of 1898 with a substantially different pagination. Several plates have been excised from the rear of this copy; however the only other copy that we locate of this work at UC Santa Barbara also is lacking a number of plates. books
45953London: Edward Arnold n. d. 1st edition presumed ca mid-1890s. Original publisher's grey-blue cloth printed in black to front board and gilt stamping to spine. Pale yellow eps. Geneal wear & soiling to binding. Slight cock. Bookplate. Very Good. vii 1 blank 232 16 pp. 1893 publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/> Edward Arnold hardcover books
1964224909Barnhart Press 1964. paperback. very good-. Thin 4to pr. wrs. wrappers lightly soiled. N.p.: Barnhart Press 1964.<br/><br/> Barnhart Press unknown books
