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1st edition, 1st printing. Very good condition hardback in a fine condition sleeved dust jacket. 178 pages, illustrated. Signed by Derek Thompson on the title page. 40872. eng
1st edition, 1st printing. Very good condition hardback in a fine condition sleeved dust jacket. 178 pages, illustrated. 40871. eng
Cartonnage de l'éditeur. 224 pages.
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Triple train threat on Horse Shoe - multi-tracked Pennsy curve on the east slope of the Alleghenies - photos; On Behalf of Baldwin - what happened when the Philadelphia watchmaker met Dr. Diesel - great article and photos; ALCO - as articulate as ever - photos; EMD - brief article and 10 photos; GE - brief article and 5 nice photos; Those Cincinnati Curiosities - The Queen city is home for the aged if not the infirm of dieseldom - article and photos; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
42 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Lackawana - the New York-Buffalo short line climbs over the beautiful Pocono Mountains; The Old South Park Line - super article with photos; A Parade of the Iron Horse - great photos in colour and black and white; Union Pacific 4-6-6-4; From the Southland - C&EI pictorial; Fast-Stepping Ten-Wheeler - Atlantic Coast Line; Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 - photos and specifications; Broad Street's 1923 Fire - train shed destroyed; New Montreal Terminal - modern, completely electrified 17-track structure replaces Canadian National's historic Bonaventure Station; Troop Sleeper - Pullman 7000 is the first of 1240 special sleeping cars; The Man in the Tower. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: How the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the Fair of the Iron Horse - extensive article with many great photos; The Great Crash at Crush - rail wreck staged by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway (MK&T, or Katy); Colour photos of a great gaterhing of iron horses in Irondale, Alabama; Mr. Hungerford's Iron Horse Opera - 1939 World's Fair; In 1948 all the 4-4-0's weren't at the Fair - the engine that built America, on and off the stage; Southern Pacific at the Panama Pacific; moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Lyon, Chez Savy Jeune - P., Labé, Libraire, 1847. In-8 relié demi vélin, dos long, pièce de titre rouge, VIII-536 pp. 4 planches en fin de volume. Ouvrage revêtu des signatures de l'Auteur et de l'Editeur. Rousseurs tout au long de l'ouvrage, mais bon état toutefois.
Lyon, Savy, Editeur, 1852. In-8 relié toile rouge, couvertures conservées, IX-498 pp. avec 134 figures de Pochet et Allouis dans le texte. Signature de Rey. Rousseurs par endroits, empreinte circulaire de décoloration sur la toile de couverture, mais ouvrage bien conservé par ailleurs.
Saumur, Ancienne Maison J.- B. Robert. A. Gendron, libraire-éditeur militaire, 1895. In-8 broché, VIII- 756 pp. Non coupé. XXV planches et 297 figures in texte. Rousseurs sur tranches et couverture sinon très bon état.
P., Lib agricole de la maison rustique, 1877. In-12 relié demi-basane violet, dos à nerfs, 325 pp. Quelques illustrations. Rousseurs sur les tranches, en début et fin de volume, dos insolé. Sinon intérieur bon état.
Saumur, Librairie Militaire Milon, 1900; in-4, 643 pp. + 692 pp., reliures demi-toile verte, dos lisse, pièce de titre bleu-nuit. Nombreuses illustrations, dont certaines en couleurs. Bon état.
From the Past into Present series. Inscriptions inside front board. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with rubbing to edges and corners. 96pp. The author vividly captures the excitement of the dramatic developments in transport over the last two centuries, covering rail, road, canals and air. A scarce book in this condition.
Langue allemande, Catalogue d'exposition, St. Gallen, Museum in Lagerhaus, Stiftung für schweizerische naive Kunst und art brut, 2003, 126 pp., relié, très bon état
No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with extremely light creasing to top edge. 272pp.
Illustré de photographies en noir et blanc hors-texte . Cheval , courses , équitation , hippisme , autobiographie . - 216 p. , 450 gr.
1003 pages. Name index. Many dozens of black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Provides a history of the Alberta districts of Blindman River, Bluff Centre, Harmonier, Iola, Lavesta, Montgreenar, Pineville, Riverview, Western Sunset and Willesden Green. Documents the history of the land sections and the families who occupied them. Includes sections on cattle and horse brands, sawmills, and cowboys. Covers the years 1900-1973. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent local history and genealogical reference. Krotki (2) 544. Strathern 3089. Book
Limited Edition no 930 out of 1000. Signed by both authors on title page. Other than this inscription from the authors, the book is 'as new'. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with minor traces of handling. 327pp. Sallie Walrond has written a great many books on horses and horse-related activities. This book tells her entertaining life story, driving and riding all types of horses and ponies, from milk floats in London to modern carriage driving. It is packed with valuable information explaining numerous methods of how horses are managed, trained, produced and exhibited throughout the world. It is full of humorous and delightful anecdotes and is illustrated with over ninety photographs.
124 pages. Contents: James Wilkinson - America's most honored traitor; Mystery Killer Ship; Can a Tiger Whip a Bull?; Betting on Horse Races through the Mail!; College Football is for Boys Alan Ameche explains how much more difficult it is to play professionally; Pioneer Airmen Glenn L. Martin and Lary Bell; Big-bore rifles for downing a charging rhino; Chrysler's design challenge to reduce the height of its cars by five inches; Blowguns - quick, quiet and deadly (article iwth color photos); Turkeys west of the Pecos; Castration - Man's greatest hidden fear; Men's fall coats; Science studies your whiskers; and more. Champion Spark Plug ad features photo of Bobby Unser at the 1956 Pikes Peak Hill-Climb. Unmarked with heavy. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features: Dead Men's Gold - the Argonauts declared Jim Carson dead and began dividing his estate, when suddenly he returned!; Astride the Iron Horse and Riding West! - a harrowing adventure; Governor Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Wild Rose O'Neal - South's Astonishing Spy; The Greatest Apache Warrior - Jolsanny; The Wagon Train of 1843; The Legendary Jack Slade; Monterey's Chinatown - met its end in needless flames; The year of the turnip - actual recipes used by the pioneers; Men with the strength of mountains - mountain men didn't know when they were licked; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Features: Peraltas Ghost Walk; Miracle at Martinsville - the Martin Brothers of Hall County, Nebraska; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Elks Lodge Badges; The Flume Riders; Hardluck General - George Crook; Mining - the game with no rules; Fair Trial at Encinoso - Charley Siringo; I Saw the Whitman Massacre - The Ghost Town of Goldstone; When a man and a horse square off - Marion McGinty; Miramount - Francolon's Castle of Mystery; The Capture of 'Jesse James' (a Stallion); Wild Old Days!; Circle City - the end of the road. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The saga of blue-eyed Herman Wol - Old Wolf Post; Indian Saddle Makers; Artist Paul Dyck collects Rare Indian Saddles; Somebody lost $3 million - The Islander goes down in Alaska's Inside Passage with gold on board; Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead - Roping a Bear in Montana!; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - J.Lee Humfreville; The Bane of Thieves - Dave Cook of Colorado; Jack Healy - the horse tamer; Meat's Meat - a starving man will eat anything; Powder River Expedition - General Patrick Connor and an ill-fated Sioux campaign in Wyoming; Saint or Devil - Padre Antonio Martinez of New Mexico; The Atoka Track - old Choctaw country; The Wanderers, by Rosie M. Norrish; In Defense of the 'old-time' coyote; The Backtracker - John Clarke of Comanche Texas tracks down his son's murderer; Wild Old Days!. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book