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80 pages. Features: I was a daughter of the Gold Rush - the exciting story of Klondy Nelson; The Face of America - Song of Old (photo); Rebirth of the Ohio River; This is My Story - Arthur Godfrey (part 8 of 8); Exiles of the Wasteland - Red Shaw and Lou Kley run an isolated Utah railroad outpost for the Southern Pacific Railroad; What Happened to These Children - fascinating explanation of the 700-year-old mystery of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; Cities of the world (#15) - Guatemala City; How to Handle $100,000,000 - The Philadelphia Board of City Trusts. Fiction: A Candle of the Lord; The Lady Hated Jazz; The Warmhearted Polar Bear; Kiss Me, Sergeant; The case of the Mission Poison (part 3 of 8); The Burning Hills (conclusion). Above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Long tear to back cover with related puncture/tear to last few pages. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 10374.
Trace of foxing to page edges. No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked, torn or creased with very minor traces of handling. 183pp. In an entertaining yet authoritative manner, the author traces the evolution over 110 years of the royal train from the first enthusiastic sampling by Queen Victoria through all the advanced features which later made it onto our standard passenger stock. Includes some foreign examples.
39 p. With numerous illustrations of trains. 4to. Wraps. Popular history of famous Strassburg Railroad which goes through Lancaster County Amish Country. PA34 x5
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates and 43 illustrations and maps (one double-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned with minor loss at back panel and one small scuff on front panel. Ottley 12346.
pp. 7, 143. Small 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Details the role of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the rise of America's great Oil Trust. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
16 pages. Undated, but appears to be circa 1980s. Many black and white illustrations. Gift greetings inside front cover. Publisher's (and author's?) signature inside front cover. Souvenir booklet. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
94p. + Full page wood engraved plates with original tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Square 8vo. Original gilt decorated purple cloth binding, spine faded. Calling card of the author. A prominent Pennsylvanian's plea to England to allow the remains of Penn to be removed to Philadelphia. PA 59.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Orange cloth boards show light wear and spots and fraying at edges. Previous owner's inscription inside. 120 pages. Black and white drawings by Walter S. Rogers. 365 pages, plus advertisements. Missing folding map.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
pp. viii, 136, (52) [Ads] + engraved Frontis and Half Title. Numerous text drawings. Bound with original decorated color wraps. Rear wrap torn without loss. Small 8vo. 6 1/2". Quarter leather binding over marbled boards. Lacks spine. Boards detached. Fascinating Nineteenth Century ads including Brewer's ads, Landscape Gardeners, Hotels, Chemists; Confectioners, Tailors, Watchmakers, Bookbinders, Carriage Builders, etc. ENGLAND BOX 2.
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Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 231 photographs and detailed drawings, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt just legible) else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With the trade ticket of Parkers of Oxford on front paste-down. Nice copy of this standard reference. Ottley 2692.
8vo., Second Impression, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This corrected edition was published in the same year as the first edition.
47 pages. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Chunk missing from front cover. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Book
8vo., with numerous plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped and lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Ottley 7811
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 49 plates on 30 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 2441.
144 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "A book about some of the outstanding figures in railway construction; the Foley Brothers, Peter Larson, Patrick Welch and John W. Stewart (whose) contributions to the development of railways in Canada was significant." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book
