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2630S.l.: The Company Passenger Department 1902. . 12mo dark gray stiff wrappers front with pictorial panel printed in black red and yellow Map is dated March 1902. Printing was carried out by the Corbett Railway Printing Company Chicago slug on outer back wrapper. S.l.: [The Company] Passenger Department, [1902]. unknown books
1938001534No Place: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1938. Personal copy of Herman B Wells beloved former President and Chancellor of Indiana University with his name in gilt at bottom of front boards. Apparently published as the response of the unions to management's demands for a 15% reduction in wages in 1938 and specially printed for prominent Americans in the hope that they would support the union's request for an increase in wages. 482 pages.Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering. A fascinating chapter in union- management history and a great railroad collectible. Boards lightly rubbed at tips and 1 page small corner crease. First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Hardcover books
1938266516Cleveland. : Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. 1938. Maroon leatherette over boards gilt cover title no spine title. . Very good spine cocked corners lightly bumped endpapers foxed no dust jacket as issued. 29x21 cm. . Max Lowenthal’s copy with his name blindstamped in gilt on the cover. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.6 lb. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. hardcover books
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
1928TB30959Pennsylvania Station New York City: Long Island Railroad 1928. First Edition. Very good in printed multi-color wraps over a stapled binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with light rubbing and wear around the perimeter of the covers and with modest soiling to the title page and verso of the front cover and to the recto of the rear cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Issued by the General Passenger Department of the Long Island Railroad. 96 pages followed by a fold-out map five color map of Long Island which has a one inch closed tear in one fold and a two inch closed tear starting at the end of the above tear both of which have been repaired with archival tape. Illustrated throughout from black and white photographs and replete with ads for hotels resorts and inns. Long Island Railroad paperback books
1930292777London: Locomotive Pub. Co. 1930. Soft Cover. Good binding. The booklet opens to the color frontispiece of the "Standard 4-6-0 Locomotive 'Royal Scot' Class" followed immediately to the Foreward. If there was a title page with publisher information it is not present.~~There are a number of black and white illustration of L.M.S. locomotives and eight color plates including the frontispiece. There wrappers have some wear with minor loss to the top of the spine. 51 pages. Good binding. [Locomotive Pub. Co.] unknown 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
40362Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books n. d. Ca. post 1962. White paper printed in black and red. Moderate wear to edges slight rust spots from paperclips curling and rubbing to edges. Otherwise a VG example. Broadside. Single sheet printed recto only. Large map illustration of Southern California. Oblong format:. <br/><br/>"Pacific Electric Railway. Wells-Fargo & Co. Express World's Greatest Electric Railway System. 1000 Miles of Standard Trolley Lines to All Points of Greatest Interest in the Heart of Southern California and Traversed by 2700 Schedules Trains Daily. Including 5 Trains at Convenient Periods to World Famous Mount Lowe." "Here is the way the Pacific Electric Railway looked in 1926 when the system was reaching its peak. The interurbans ended all operations in 1961. Map reproduced from Trans-Anglo Books' Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump." Trans-Anglo Books unknown books
192440427San Francisco: Market Street Railway Company 1924. 1st printing. White paper printed with black lettering. Very light wear to edges previous creasing. Single sheet. Illustrated map of the San Francisco peninsula. Oblong format: 12-3/4" x 15" <br/><br/>The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco the core of its runs transporting up and down Market Street in the city hence the name of the company. Throughout its lifetime the company traded hands and names on numerous occasions. It was the first horsecar line to open in San Francisco beginning its runs on July 4th 1860. The company had a difficult time convincing others of the need to electrically run systems but the 1906 earthquake and fire gave them the chance to overrule the votes and rebuild the system the way they chose. The cars were large and luxurious and are on display in San Francisco's Railway Museum. Only 2 later editions found in institutional holdings on OCLC. Rare in the trade. Market Street Railway Company unknown books
18641396538th Cong. 1st Sess.: SED26. 1864. 16pp Disbound Very Good. SED26. unknown books
1869139281869. 40TH Cong. 3d Sess. SED10. 47pp Disbound Very Good. unknown books
18681392740TH Cong. 3d Sess. SED4. 1868. 12 4 pp. Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18661665939th Cong. 1st Sess.: SED14. 1866. 17 1 blank pp disbound. Very Good. SED14. unknown books
18681389640th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED203. 1868. 11pp Disbound Very Good. HED203. unknown books
18841544648th Cong. 1st Sess. SED. 1884. No.121. 1884. 11pp disbound. Inner edges a bit rough. Very Good. unknown books
18831393148TH Cong. 1st Sess.: SED27. 1883. 32 14 pp. Disbound. Very Good. SED27. unknown books
1886WRCAM2355Washington 1886. 23pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Very good. Outlines all the grants to the line. unknown books
18671393540TH Cong. 2d Sess.: HED31. 1867. 9pp Disbound Very Good. HED31. unknown books
186330260Memphis 1863. Broadside 9" x 11". Lined paper with columns in blue and red inks entirely in manuscript. Two large stains at left edge moderate dusting to right edge on verso. A few small edge chips old folds with archival tape repairs of short splits on verso. Good to Good.<br/><br/> The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was chartered in 1852; construction began in 1853 and was completed in 1860. The road ran from Canton Mississippi to Jackson Tennessee; it connected to the New Orleans Jackson and Great Northern Railroads at Canton; the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction Tennessee; and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson Tennessee. The Mississippi Central Railroad was the scene of several military actions during 1862-1863 and was severely damaged.<br/> R.S. Taylor & Co. of Memphis Tennessee advertised as Cotton Factors and Grocers "We have a large and well selected stock of Groceries and Flour among which is the old favorite Grafton 000 and Reincke's Elegant." THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL VOLUME 31 NUMBER 67 FEBRUARY 22 1871 Page 1. unknown books
187217968N.p. 1872. 8vo. 16 21 pp. <br><br>First lease dated 2 January 1872. Removed from a nonce volume; three stitch holes in inner margin. A few dog-ears. Rubber-stamped by the now-defunct Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. unknown books
1887WRCAM29248Np 1887. 21pp. Original printed wrappers. Numerous institutional stamps and ownership signatures on front wrapper. Very good. The terms and conditions of the lease of the Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Company to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1887. Good evidence of the dramatic northwest railroad consolidation in the late 19th century culminating in the acquisition of the Northern Pacific by James J. Hill's Great Northern Railroad in 1896. OCLC locates only two copies. OCLC 3742891. unknown books
185331456Davenport: Sanders & Davis 1853. 24pp. Stitched lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> This pamphlet provides "elaborate details of the projected road across the State from Davenport to Council Bluffs" 130 Eberstadt 311. The incorporators included the well known civil engineer John Jervis of New York. <br/>130 Eberstadt 312. Graff 2828. OCLC 11478920 10 as of January 2021. Not in Sabin Moffit Decker or BRE. Sanders & Davis unknown books
1946242N.p. 1946. Near fine. Poster 18 x 24 inches. Minor wear. A handsome poster advertising travel on the Santa Fe Railroad featuring several Navajo Indians in the foreground and a pueblo in the background. One of the men in the foreground stands drumming while the others are seated behind him chatting. The vibrant colors are washed out slightly by the fierce New Mexican sun softening the view. 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
187333851N.p. 1873. First Edition. 16pp. Original printed wrappersspine mended. Not in Graff Eberstadt. Hibbard was the superintendant of immigration providing home steads to soldiers and sailors along the route of the NPR. unknown books
190049936St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan 1900. 16mo pp. 112; 3 plates one a folding map of the Northeast US with a detail of the Detroit-Buffalo rail line illustrations throughout; green paper wrappers with white embossed details; extremities rubbed 1 plate loose good. A guidebook for summer retreats throughout the US with information on lodging sightseeing and approximate travel costs. <br/><br/> Woodward & Tiernan unknown books