New York: Quadrant Press, 1978. Softcover. Oblong oversized softcover. Very good. 64 pp. Illustrated throuout with vintage photos, map inside rear cover. Pictroial review of the stram and diesel locomotives that powered the Central New Jersey Railroad from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Motorbooks International, 2003. 2003. Paperback. As new. Color illustated softcovers. 160 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with color and balck and white photos and reproductions of artwork, advertising, etc. A generous text and over 200 illustrations grace this look at the history of the iconic American "streamliner" passenger trains, from.....
Motorbooks International, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. 160 pages with index and beautiful, full color (and b&w) images throughout. Dust jacket is clean and crisp with a full color photograph. "There was a time in America when getting there was.....
kent, UK: Steam Powered Publishing, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Oversized in coor illustrated softcovers. As new, unused example. 100 pp. with index and appendix of railroad reporting & indentification marks. Maps throughout. The seventh (and apparently by far the scarcest) volume of the extremely scarce Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North.....
NY: Moody Corp. 1906. First. Hardcover. First edition. Square octavo sized in dark red cloth lettered in gilt; 179 pps. with index and section of ads for various Moody's investment publications. A fine, fresh, bright copy of one of the classic works on investing. John Moody, one of the fathers.....
London: Allen & Unwin, 1969. First edition. Hardback. First edition. Hardcover. 180 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Comprehenesive and authotitative accountof the development of the British railway signalling system. Fine in fine, lightly toned price clipped dust jacket. (REDUCED INTERNATION SHIPPING AVAILABLE ON THIS ITEM. PLEASE INQUIRE BEFORE ORDERING.).....
Clifton, VA: Boynton & Associates, 1967. First edition. Soft Cover. First Edition. In very good condition with small obscured ownership stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black and white diagrams. 57 pgs.
Honeoye Falls, NY: Iron Man Press, 1991. Softcover. Illustrated stiff wrappers. 70 pp. Illustrated with vintage photos and with drawings. Generally fine, small bump to one tip. Illustrated monograph on the history of the short line Between Honeoye Falls and Lima, in Monroe County in far northwestern New York State.....
Chicago: Owen Davies, 1959. Softcover. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. 79 pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions and drawings of the earliest locomotives and vintage photos of later ones. Near fine, touch of rubbing to the spine. This piece combines papers that were originally published in three issues of Baldwin Locomotives in.....
1879. manuscript. A group of three handwritten letters on official company letterhead concerning railroad in central New Jersey. All written rectos only. #1) on letterhead of the Freehold & Jamesburg Ag. R.R. Co., Jamesburg, N.J. DatedJune 6th, 1879 to "James J. Conover, Esq. Chairman, Commissioners, Freehold" One paragraph concerning applicarions.....
London: Hamilton, Adams & Co, 1887. Second. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth with spine lettering gilt. 296 pps. The second edition. Collection of stories, facts, anecdotes, etc about British railroads of the 19th century. A tight copy, offsetting to the title page, gilt spine lettering bright and with spine strip a......
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1924. presumed first edition. Softcover. Presumed first edition. Softcover with gray blue textured covers lettered in gilt. 263 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In very good condition with some glue stains on spine.
1893. Manuscript. Snall archive of material concerning injuries allegedly sustained in a railway accident near Buttsville, New Jersey, March 3rd, 1893. There are three sest of documents: 1) three-page typescript legal complaint filed in U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern Distirct of New York by Charles F. Lothrop against the.....
Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 128 pp. with index, glossary, maps, engines roster, schematic signal diagrams. Illustrated with photos. Fine in very good or somewhat better dust jacket. Unique first-hand railroad reminiscence from a former brakeman on the Boston & Maine Railroad.
Allentown, PA: National Railway Historical Societ, Inc., 1961. First edition. Spiral_bound. First edition. Spiral bount in bright yellow illustrated covers. 116 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In near fine condition with some toning to edges.
NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1870. First. Hard Cover. Firts edition. Three-quarter vellum over marbeled paper-covered boards, red leather spine label stamped in gilt and with spine decorated in gilt. (xv) 201 pps. 10 plates of engraved diagrams. Frontis portrait of Read is lacking though tissue guard is present. Extremely scarce.....
Privately Printed. Softcover. N.d. (circa 1965), n.pl. 48 pp. Illustrated with vintage photographs. Monograph on interurban trolleys, particularly in Ohio and western New York. The photographic section contains some 70 vintage photos of rolling stock. Near fine. Laid in is a short article "How To Be A MotorMan (Pre-PCC Cars)".....
Dover Publications, 2005. Paperback. As new. Oversized in color illustrated card wrappers. 24 detachable postcards featuring full color vintage advertising 1917-1936 for Lionel, Ives, Dorfan, American Flyer trains and train sets.
Dover Publications, 1993. Paperback. Oversized in glossy illustrated softcovers. xi+129 pp. With 126 photographs. Rare collection of images of "Builder portraits' of American locomotives that chronicle the age of steam power transportation from just before the Civil War through the post World War II period. Near fine.
Los Angels: Crest Publications, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton stated. Oversized hardcover. 238 pp. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. Very good, some soiling to the white paper covered boards. In dust jacket with some soiling and edge chipping. A bit musty. The history of the vast system of interurbans.....
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1874. First edition. Leather_bound. Scarce. 18mo. (4" x 6") in self folding leather wraps with front flap, flap decorated in gilt with an image of a19th century Baldwin passenger locomotive, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait engraving of M.W. Baldwin with tissue.....
Hicksville, NY: N J Intl, 1982. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Softcover. In fine condition with ownership stamp on first page. Illustrated with color photos. Unpaginated (32 pps.).
NY: Lyon, 1908. Hardcover. Very good hardcover. Volume 2 only. Oversized volume in maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 267 pp. Few light abrasions to the cloth and a small dark spot front cover, gilt lettering bright. Internally clean and unmarked.
NY: Lyon, 1908. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Laid in are two large folding color maps, the first a map of steam railroads in New York State and the seond an even larger map of electric railroads in the state. Fine, as are both.....
NY: Lyon, 1909. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 318 pp. . Volume 3 only. Text clean. Near fine.
