Wilmerding, PA: The Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slender 4to. Illustrated full color endpapers. Illustrated throughout, some in black and white, others in half-tones and some more in full color. A clean and solid copy.
Pittsburgh: Locomotive Stoker Company, 1917. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. Original brown stiff card covers, printed in black. 54pp. The printing on the cover has faded just a bit. Illustrated throughout. A clean and solid copy of this scarce volume.
Central Committee On Public Relations, 1927. First edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Paper wrappers, lettered and bordered in black. A very clean and solid copy.
Philadelphia: Pennyslvania Railroad Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. 4to. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Some wear to the spine ends but overall the book remains very solid and pleasing. Now very scarce.
Philadelphia: The Bingham Company, 1923. Hardcover. Fine. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt with a locomotive image in blind on the front panel. Printed on glossy paper. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy in all respects.
Pennyslvania Railroad Company, 1910. First edition. Soft Cover. Good. Original gray wrappers, lettered in black. Front cover detached with some loss along the top edge. Contents very good. Illustrated with photographs, charts and graphs and fold-out schematic drawing. Very scarce.
Philadelphia: The Pennyslvania Railroad Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Original 3/4 black pebble grained leather on boards, with black pebble grained cloth insets and patterned endpapers. An exceptionally clean, bright and solid copy of this magnificent volume. Some minor scuffing to the corners and spine ends but all of this is very superficial. The book remains very strong and.....
New York: The De Leeuw & Oppenheimer Printing Co., 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original black cloth. Corners and spine were leather. The leather on the corners is now about 20% worn off and the spine is now supported with tape. The book remains very solid and readable. Many illustrations with charts, graphs and fold-out sections...
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1870. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. A scarce and important work on Locomotive Engines. Internally the book is very clean and solid. The covers show some wear at the hinges but the book remains very strong.
New York: The Derry-Collard Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original tan cloth, lettered in red with some decoration in blue. Beveled edges. Illustrate throughout with photographs and schematic drawings. 141pp. A solid copy of a scarce title.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1907. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original brown cloth on boards lettered in gilt. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Just a tiny bit of wear to the foot of the spine, else fine. Contains pages of graphs and tables.
London: Collins, 1947. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Slender 4to. Illustrated throughout. A lovely example of this charming volume. From the vast British In Pictures Series. Some minor wear to the spine of the jacket, else fine.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo, not rebound in 3/4 red morocco with marbled insets and and endpapers. Spine with six compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt. Some minor edge-wear, else fine. A clean, bright and solid copy now beautifully re-bound.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Two volumes complete. Original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated map endpapers. The books are extemely clean, bright and pleasing. T.E.G. Profusely illustrated with maps, prints and photographs. The complete dust jackets have moderate overall wear, some minor chipping and some larger closed.....
Herald Book and Job Printing Office, 1844. First printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Original blue wrappers, lettered in black. An extremely clean, bright and solid example of this scarce and fragile booklet. A very detailed examination of this catastrophic event which killed four people. The last page contains a diagram of the disaster scene.
London: Taylor And Walton, (1840). Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original black cloth decorated in blind on both boards and lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine. Some minor wear to the spine ends but considering the age, this volume is in remarkably fine fettle. Illustrated throughout with dozens of wood-cut engravings, both full page and in-text. 535pp...
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1889. Hardcover. Fine. Original dark green cloth lettered on the front panel with a gilt locomotive and lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated throughout with dozens of in-text examples. Pages and pages of tables. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. No notations or foxing - a tight and solid copy...
Chicago: Railway Educational Press, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original blue cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine. The title page has a crease running the length of the page and one illustration, on page 128, has been excised. Other than those two facts this book remains very nice.
Philadelphia: The Passenger Department, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto, 3/4 leather mauve cloth inset, lettered and decorated in gilt. All edges marbled as well as the endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some very minor rubbing to the edges but overall a very lovely copy indeed.
Denver: Sage Books, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Edited by William E. Bain. Original red cloth on boards lettered in gilt on the spine. A clean, bright and solid copy. The illustrated dust jacket is clipped but remains overall very nice indeed. Illustrated.
Morristown, NJ: Railroadians Of America, INC, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original grey cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. From the limited edition of 2000 copies, this one being number 127. With two Addendum sections. Illustrated throughout. Comes with a letter from the Publisher. A clean and solid copy.
London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound in one. Original dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. It looks brand new with bright gilt and true corners. Profusely illustrated with engraved plates as well as in-text illustrations and fold-out schematic drawings. A fine copy indeed.....
Chicago: The Brotherhood Of Railroad Signalmaen Of America, (1921). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel. The gilt is about half faded - still legible but not as bright as the day it was born. Illustrated throughout. The cloth covers are scuffed along the corners and the hinges but the book.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original dark green buckram, lettered in gilt on the spine. First Edition, second impression, stated on the title page. Illustrated throughout with three fold-out plates. A very clean and solid copy.
(1889). First edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Original buff wrappers, lettered in black. A clean and solid pamphlet - very scarce and fragile. A crease runs the length of the item.