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1910012553no place: Canadian Pacific Railway 1910. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong octavo 8vo. 24 black & white photographs. Illustrated paper binding is moderately to heavily torn chipped and wrinkled at the edges but is quite clean and is fully intact. There is no text except the title of each photograph. There is also no date listed circa 1910. Shows the Banff Springs Hotel and amazing views. Canadian Pacific Railway Paperback books
1910302511Pacific Electric Railway ca. 1910. 1910. Original photograph depicting 43 passengers men and women dressed in coats and hats at the Echo Mountain Terminal 3200 feet above sea level with printed descriptive information on the mount with pictorial green borders. 4 11/16" x 7 1/2" image on stiff 6 1/16" x 9" pictorial folder. No Binding. Fine. Pacific Electric Railway [ca. 1910]. unknown books
187527665New York: Evening Post Steam Presses 1875. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. iv 3-133 pp. Wrappers moderately worn else a clean text and Very Good.<br/><br/> A comprehensive compilation of the legal documents creating and authorizing the Railroad and its branches and affiliates. OCLC locates five copies under several accession numbers as of March 2018. A shorter version with this title appeared in 1873. Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
196339982Oakland CA: Southern Pacific Railways 1963. 1st printing presumed. Stiff white printed paper. Modest wear to paper faint age-toning and creasing to edges. Stamped by F. L. Rizzo - Steward to a particular dining car. A VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Includes prices alongside breakfast meal options. Southern Pacific Railways unknown books
194440351San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1944. Beige paper printed with blue black and orange inks. Brochure printed on orange paper. Moderate wear to timetables and posters rubbing creasing and light soiling apparent. An about VG collection. 15 items each of varying pages. Spreadsheets housed within each timetable. Various sizes: 10-3/4" x 15-1/4" oblong format to timetables. Brochure: 5" x 7" oblong. Posters: 12-1/2" x 19" <br/><br/>Includes: 8 Railway timetables numbers: 210 239 12 11 225 231 218 & 236 a small brochure on How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer complete with question and answer test a pamphlet on the "End of an Era" about the run of San Francisco's Last Ferryboats and three posters with timetables printed on rectos blank versos. "All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday. All of us want to run big locomotives that pull famous trains blow whistles give signals and do all the other things that make the engineer's job so much fun. Now boys don't have to wait until "someday" to be real engineers. They can be Southern Pacific Junior Engineers. It is very easy to be a Junior Engineer and it doesn't cost a cent." How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
1938225270Berkeley CA: Pacific Coast School for Workers 1938. Paperback. 154p. wraps creased photographic frontispiece group portrait else mimeographed with line illustrations 8.5x11 inches very good condition. Includes creative writings references to various unions course descriptions and more. Pacific Coast School for Workers paperback books
1939225280Berkeley CA: Pacific Coast School for Workers 1939. Paperback. 144p. wraps creased photographic frontispiece else mimeographed with line illustrations 8.5x11 inches paper browned with minor wrinkling from damp else good condition. Includes creative writings references to various unions course descriptions and more. Pacific Coast School for Workers paperback books
191513350San Francisco: Amos Publishing Co 1915. Later printing. Staple bound wraps. Near Fine. 4.25x6.25in; Unpaginated 32 plates with 110 black and white images panoramic day and night image of Exposition; Light-blue paper wrappers with raised gilt lettering image of Tower of Jewels on front in gilt borders image of Palace of Fine Arts on back in gilt borders image of model of Woolworth building New York on inside back cover two staple binding; Minimal rubbing to covers and spine faint water spots on front very little staple rust small chip at bottom front and spine corners and edges clean and tight. Amos Publishing Co unknown 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
196272797San Francisco 1962. Paperback. Very Good. 15 15p. cover included in pagination. Wrapper. 28cm. Covers browning around edges. <br/><br/> paperback books
1985USECSEL00KABSecurity Pacific National Bank 1985. Very Good. Security Pacific National Bank. Self-Portraits by Women Artists: January 26 - April 7 1985. Los Angeles CA: Security Pacific National Bank 1985. 44pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light shelf wear. Security Pacific National Bank paperback 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
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
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
196787942Washington 1967. Paperback. Very Good. 2 annual reports. Original wrappers. 27cm. Formed to study alternatives to or improvement of the Panama Canal. One alternative that appears to have been seriously considered was using nuclear explosions to excavate a new canal route. <br/><br/> paperback books
1973016775Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Soft off-white card wrapper with green mountain design on cover. Staple-bound. Wrapper is dirt-soiled and rubbed at edges. Some light wrinkling to interior pages. Otherwise clean. Spine is sturdy. Fold-out map at rear. ; 10 1/2" x 8"; 57 pp . U. S. Government Printing Office paperback books
10931SF PACIFIC CA 1919. 24 TIPPED-IN PHOTOS VERY GOOD. SF, PACIFIC, CA 1919 unknown books
1882WRCAM8164Np 1882. 15pp. Original printed wrappers. Some soiling else very good. unknown books
2007232817San Francisco: GAPA 2007. 28p includes covers 5.5x8.5 inches photos ads event schedule cards laid-in very good event program in stapled white pictorial wraps. Nineteenth annual awards ceremony. GAPA unknown books
19988116Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1565122135 . First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill hardcover 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
1964224909Barnhart Press 1964. paperback. very good-. Thin 4to pr. wrs. wrappers lightly soiled. N.p.: Barnhart Press 1964.<br/><br/> Barnhart Press unknown books
1949568011949. United Scenic Artists designing artists contract. Signed twice by Melziner. unknown books
1860WRCAM41089BWashington 1860. Twelve volumes bound in thirteen. Profusely illustrated with maps lithographic plates colored lithographic plates profiles etc. Large thick quarto. Original blindstamped cloth spines gilt. Minor edge wear. Each volume rebacked retaining original backstrip but with new endpapers. All but one volume from the Senate issue Vol. XII Part 1 is the House issue with a Senate backstrip. Lacking the general map of the routes surveyed from Vol. XI. Several maps with holes and separations along fold lines many with large tears including Warren's map of the western United States. Occasional tideline affecting text or an illustration scattered foxing and toning. Overall quite clean internally. Good plus. This large quarto set is the most important and massive compilation of exploration reports and data ever published about the trans-Mississippi West. Under the direction of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis the Pacific Railroad survey in two years increased the contemporary knowledge of the geography topography geology and natural history of the West by a quantum leap. Included herein are the reports of Humphreys Stevens Beckwith Whipple Warren Williamson Lander et al supplemented with reports on scientific observations and numerous significant achievements in cartography including Warren's "Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean." here present in the eleventh volume which has been hailed as "the best cartographical work on the West up to its time." Howes. The illustrative material engraved and lithographed views specimens of birds fishes and other animals is of the highest quality often in colored state and encompasses thousands of illustrations either in the text or as separate plates. Wheat devotes twenty-four pages of detailed discussion to the maps in this series of reports singling out the Warren map as "among the great maps of the United States that preceded the Civil War." <br> <br> All things considered this edition of the Pacific Railroad Surveys stands as a testament to one of the greatest government sponsored projects in our history and is a foundation work for any collection devoted to Western Americana or cartography. HOWES P3 etc. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822 through 824 843 through 846 852 853 864 through 867 874 875 877 through 882 898 936 23 in all. TWENEY 89 59. WAGNER-CAMP 262 through 267. RITTENHOUSE 442. REESE STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 75. ZAMORANO SELECT 108. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 138. hardcover books
18571004304to 11 ½ x8 ¾ original law calf morocco illustrated 4 134 85102 114 2 iv 64 pp. Some scuffing and wear to covers slight gouge to front joint chipping to edges. Two plates detached one with a chipped corner. Overall very good. Organized by the War department under the direction of Jefferson Davis who was Secretary of War at that time a collection of volumes was produced in the quest for the best route for a railroad to the West. Jefferson Davis wrote part of the introduction to this series and outlines the goals of the project. This report is on routes explored in Northern California and Oregon. Specifically the expedition was to look for a railroad route crossing the Sierra Nevada near the source of the Carson River and to see if it was feasible to connect the Sacramento valley with the Oregon Territory. Most of the color plates in this volume are located in the first three parts of the publication which is focused on topography geology and botanical subjects. This volume includes 23 color lithographs of scenery and botanical subjects 2 hand colored plates of birds and 24 steel engraved plates. Wagner-Camp 264a. Beverly Tucker, unknown books
