Softcover. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, plain stapled wrappers, 8 X 11", 45 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Condit defines the pioneer stage as roughly that decade between 1895 and 1905, when steam railroads first experimented with various types of electric motive power. Calling it "the most complex technical achievement of the nineteenth century", he gives a detailed historical account of the effort. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Lauriat, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Multiple illustrations and plates with detailed engravings. Limited to 500 copies, reprint of 1808 1st London edition, with appendix from the 1819 2nd London edition. Subtitled: A key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship. A knowledgeable and comprehensive manual by Darcy Lever designed to assist young gentlemen of the Royal Navy from the early 19th century.
Hardcover. Shelburne, Vermont, New England Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages. Volume I covers Addison Railroad to the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad, 27 railroads in all. Red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, dust jacket illustrate with color watercolor by Laura Brown, textured decorated endpapers, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Stapled notes on Addison Railroad included. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, crisp, unmarked pages; a beautiful neat, tight copy in great condition.
Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, two large quarto, about 12.75 inches tall, in gray pictorial wraps. 690 pages, the two volumes being paginated consecutively. Illustrated by very detailed photographs, drawings, schematics, engravings. A massive technological / engineering history of American railroad cars dedicated to passenger traffic.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Voyageur Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. The days of full service gas stations are a thing of the past, but it will never be forgotten in the minds of many petroliana enthusiasts. Catchy slogans, architecture and color schemes of the station itself, incentives and giveaways, stamps, and clever advertising from the first few decades of the twentieth century until today's fully stocked convenience stores are covered in this book. The highly detailed text also offers a glimpse of what was happening to the gas stations in Europe and serves wonderfully as a comparison with the gas stations in North America at the time. Vintage photography and advertisements provide a wonderful visual trip back in time to the days of being greeted by a smiling attendant every time you pulled into the gas station. Clenn copy.
Hardcover. St. Paul, MN, MBI Pub., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and rubbing to cover boards, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, cloth covered boards, 78 pages; black and white illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.
Softcover. Chicago, American School], reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brown wrappers with black type, 126 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, The text pages are clean and bright. Included are four folded schematics which are clean and untorn. The rear cover gas some light water stains, but not affecting the inside contents. Previous pwner's name on title page, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Bay Pines FL, ACL-SAL Historical Society, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. An expertly written work on the rich history of passenger trains. The Sleeping Car is an overview of sleeping car history, design, technology, and accommodations.
Softcover. Sono Nis Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages. The history of railroads on Vancouver Island begins in 1863. Turner presents the stories of the lines, the men who built them, and the locomotives and cars that gave them a unique character. Included is the saga of the Dunsmuirs, the coal barons and railroad builders who influenced the entire history of the Island.
Hardcover. NY, Simmons-Boardman Publishing, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gold design, titles, 1028 pages. Definitions and typical illustrations of steam, turbine, electric and diesel locomotives, their parts and equipment, including a section on locomotive shops and engine terminals. Photographs, illustrations and diagrams. One of the final issues of the Cyclopedias in which steam locomotives would be featured. Small date on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. As the twentieth century dawned, the Boston & Maine Railroad Company controlled virtually all of the rail lines in New Hampshire, as well as much of the service in Maine and Massachusetts. Ultimately, the company operated more than 2,000 stations in northern New England. The train was the most important mode of travel, and the stations were the center of the community. Boston & Maine in the 20th Century continues the first pictorial history of the railroad company, entitled Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. With more than 200 rare images and historical narrative, the book details the trains and their destinations: the terminals, stations, depots, and whistle stops to which they sped. Times changed, and the railroad was passed by; however, its legacy lives on. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lynchburg VA, TLC Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in glossy illustrated paper covered boards. 152 pages illustrated by maps, photographs, some in color, map endpapers. Very nicely produced pictorial but with plenty of text. Clean, bright, sound and unworn. Published without a dustjacket as usual for this publisher. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Company, reprint, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 376 pages. 214 b/w illustrations throughout by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. Gilt title and decorations on spine and front cover. Dark green cloth, some slight fraying at very top of spine. Illustration on frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt edges still quite bright. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Light foxing throughout pages, but does not affect text or illustrations. Considering age in very good shape.
Softcover. NY, Wayner Publications, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with spiral binding, 56 leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated throughout with engineering drawings with dimensions. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Presents detailed engineering drawings of elevations and floor plans of the Rio Grande rolling stock of freight, passenger and work-service cars. Clean copy.
Softcover. New Cumberland PA, Middle Division, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong folio, 10.5" x 17 ", spiral ring binding in original blue pictorial paper covers, 115 pages plus some folded plates in pockets at rear, several pages are large folded plates.
Softcover. San Jose CA, Quincy House, 1st Ltd Ed, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This oblong folio -- 11" x 17" -- is 166 pages of mostly measured drawings of the Passenger Cars. This edition is limited to 1000 copies of which this is #231. Photos. Line drawings. Oversize metal comb binding. Clean copy. A comprehensive set of schematic diagrams of the Burlington's passenger cars (dining, parlor and lounge, sleeping, baggage, baggage-mail, mail (RPO), and chair-coach) as well as a section covering truck details. Hand drawn by the author in HO scale, the diagrams cover all of Burlington's passenger cars from the earliest wooden cars up through the stainless steel cars. The book is laid out in numerical sequence for each class.
Softcover. West Burlington IA, Mile Post 206 Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong folio, about 17.5 inches (44 cm) wide, in black and red illustrated spiral-bound wraps. 156 pages illustrated by photographs and measured drawings. An impressive production showing what on other railroads would be called cabooses. Some of these are relatively large and elaborate.
Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Johnston and Howe, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, illustrated with b&w photos, tables and maps. Small stamp to title page otherwise clean. The saga of America's most romantic short line. Chronicles the picturesque little YV from its ambitious beginnings in 1902 through its untimely demise in 1945.
Softcover. Highlands Ranch CO, Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft Cover. Spiral bound. 288 pages. Oblong 4to. B&w illustrations, photos throughout. Clean copy. Invaluable, handsome reference book on the refrigerator cars of the ATSF, from 1884 through 1971. Chapters cover 19th century cars, 20th century truss rod cars, USRA style cars, original ARA type design, USRA rebuilds (1935-50), ARA design rebuilds (1950-53), steel 40' cars (1935-53), 50' cars (1931-46), modernizing the fleet (1954-59), and ice cars (1908-71). With 9 appendices on lettering, rosters, slogan assignments by car, all-time reefer fleet totals, beer cars, diagrams, etc.
Softcover. Andover NJ, Andover Junction Publications, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, color pictorial cover, b&w (and a few color) photos nearly every page throughout, binding tight, text unmarked. Interesting and well-done history of the "Old Woman," the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, followed by an examination of the period before and after World War II when the O&W adopted diesels in the hope that it would save the line from financial ruin. Although the O&W did go under in 1957, the author argues that the diesels extended its life by about a decade.
Softcover. NY, Quadrant Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Grey wraps with photo on cover, and green lettering. Nearly every page has B&W photos demonstrating the usefulness and versatility of the 2-8-2 locomotive which has endured for over a century. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hanover PA, The Railroad Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. A must for all modelers and fans of the New York Central. Cars are shown in several different paint and lettering schemes. A complete roster and index accompany crisp clear B&W photographs. These vintage photographs are run large so you can see all of the details. Clean copy.
The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft Cover. Spiral bound. 4to. (1998). 2nd Printing. Fine. Illustrated. No names, marks or highlighting. Ours is the updated printing with a banner at corner, not shown in stock photo.
Softcover. Highlands Ranch CO, Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft Cover. Spiral bound. 288 pages. Oblong 4to. B&w illustrations, photos throughout. Clean copy. Invaluable, handsome reference book on the refrigerator cars of the ATSF, from 1884 through 1971. Chapters cover 19th century cars, 20th century truss rod cars, USRA style cars, original ARA type design, USRA rebuilds (1935-50), ARA design rebuilds (1950-53), steel 40' cars (1935-53), 50' cars (1931-46), modernizing the fleet (1954-59), and ice cars (1908-71). With 9 appendices on lettering, rosters, slogan assignments by car, all-time reefer fleet totals, beer cars, diagrams, etc.
Hardcover. Leesburg FL, Railroad Historical Society, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 136 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. An inside look at passenger train wrecks from original 1940-1968 Pullman and ICC reports. Scarce.
Softcover. New Haven CT, New Haven Railroad, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, small 2-color brochure promoting the company's new streamlined locomotives, coaches and cars. 12 pages, photographs with a die-cut center featuring their 0361 locomotive. Super clean condition.
Hardcover. Outlet, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes, "Cars of the 30s and 40s", Cars of the 50s and 60s" and "Cars 1886-1930". Dust jackets on all three, with pictorial slipcase. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price-clipped, and a touch of age-yellow. Cover boards decorated/glossy. Clean and unmarked inside. In excellent shape.
Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 348 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. "In this original and authoritative work, Vance argues that the railroad in North America is a distinct indigenous creation and not an importation from Britain and Europe. His combined familiarity with railroading, routes and cities, facilities, and North American geography is unsurpassed and the result is quite unlike anything in the historical or specialist literature."--Donald Meinig, Syracuse University "No previous book has presented the over-all picture of the development of the North American railroad network with Vance's emphasis on the reciprocal relationships among the economic and technological conditions on the one hand and the geographic aspects of development on the other. The scope of the presentation is virtually encyclopedic -- and there is no doubt that the book will quickly become a standard reference on the subject." -- Harold M. Mayer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Hardcover. NY, Metro Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The late nineteenth century brought a transportation explosion in North America and Europe, much of it produced by the steam engine, which by that time had become strong and versatile enough to power ocean-crossing vessels and large freight trains. Where Rails Meet the Sea tells the exciting story of how the transportation industry was revolutionized by steam power and how the industry in turn changed the face of the world. Written by an expert in the history of ships and trains and heavily illustrated throughout in color and b&w.
Softcover. Seattle, Alaska Steamship Co., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 X 9" panels, opens to a 8 X 9" brochure with 16 pages, stapled, color covers, 2-colors inside. Includes a map, sailing schedule for March to October, 1916. Previous owner has made notations along margins about his experiences re the steamship line.
Hardcover. St Paul MN, Voyageur Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This authoritative, illustrated history tells the story of one of the country?s premier passenger trains, Pennsylvania Railroad?s Broadway Limited, an institution in New York-to-Chicago rail travel from 1902 to 1955. Text and pictures introduce readers to the posh cars and powerful engines, the luxuries and amenities on board, the stations, terminals, and timetables?everything that made the train the pride of the Pennsylvania. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukee, Kalmbach Publishing, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket, bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges stained red. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition. Very good condition, 1352 pages. Incomparable reference work on industrial and passenger railroad cars just before World War II. The extensive sections on Pullman and sleeping cars, private cars, motor trains, lighting, provide excellent details on the railroads of the period. Hundreds of detailed photos and dimensioned construction drawings. All types of rolling stock is covered: Box, Hopper, Gondola, Reefer, Stock, Flat, Passenger-Pullman, etc. Details of braking systems, draft gear, trucks, coupler styles and more. Distributorstamp on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, New York Central Lines, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, multi-panel brochure which opens up to a 34 X 20" map on one side. A promotional piece from a consortium of railroads that shows how their routes tie together the industrial heartland. Hundreds of stops listed in a detailed map. Very good condition. In a brown card folder, clean. No date but assumed 1920s.
Hardcover. Vancouver, Whitecap Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 165 pages. Story of the building of a Railway in Southern B.C. through incredibly rugged terrain. Over 150 original black and white photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Edmonds WA, Pacific Fast Mail, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, tri-fold frontis. map intact, without tears. A pictorial history of rail development in southern British Columbia and the building of the Kettle Valley Railway. Mostly b&w photos, some color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Edison NJ, Chartwell Books, 1st, 2007, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Large heavy volume. With over 400 high quality maps, plans, and photographs this book brings the subject to life, revealing all aspects of rail transportation and technology. It maps the spread of the networks across the country, showing the stations and important intersections, the layout and location of major bridges and tunnels, and much more. It examines railroad technology, from the early steam engines, through diesel and electric locomotives. It also details the building of stations, railroad constructions and factories that grew up around the railroad network. Social history is explored, covering the movement of people, farm produce and manufactured goods, giving a real insight into the role that rail transportation played. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Edmund and George W. Blunt, 18th Edition., 1857, Dust Jacket: None, 739 pages, contains 4 fold-out maps and charts. 2 maps with tears, one detached, all present. Original calf covers with spine label. Edges worn, hinges cracked, some tan staining to some page margins. Soiling to rear end papers and text block, top and bottom edges. Overall good plus.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated-even obsessed-by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: "If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision," he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his "white phase" of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.
Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 436 pages. A history of American steamboats from its earliest days to the twentieth century. Covers the steamboat vessels on all of America's major waterways and regions with a focus on the eastern seaboard. Many illustrations.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Guyde Publishing Co., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limp red cloth covers stamped in gilt, now faded. Vintage travel guide for the northeast. Maps, advertising, photos, large folding map inside rear cover with a tear to one panel, no paper loss. Previous owners embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Simmons-Boardman Publishing, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A gargantuan volume, 1334 pages, 8 1/2 x 12". Compiled for manufacturers in the railroad industry. Definitions and Illustrations of American railway cars, their parts and equipment. Thousands of b&w photos, plans and elevations of railroad freight cars, postal cars, passenger cars, sleepers, etc. all shown in minute detail. The same treatment is given to equipment such as brakes, couplers, etc. The book has been professionally rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Scarce. Mild water stain to first 50 pages, otherwise clean. No out-of country shipping on this very heavy volume.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. What Pennsylvania Station was, is, and might be in the future, through knowledgeable text and excellent pictures and drawings. A good read for those who want a detailed look at one of New York City's most famous architectural treasures, how it was lost, and how it might be reborn once again. The section on its rebirth in the Farley Post Office building was written before work was delayed on the project. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hanover PA, Privately Published, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages with photographs of various electric locomotives and cars, abbreviated rosters and index. A fine and bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Ronald Searle. PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY SEARLE'S AGENT (John Locke) with his stamp on front fly leaf. Very good condition. Dust jacket has age tanning to spine, one chip at bottom of spine.
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