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Welcome to our website of fine and rare books.

We focus on books of Railroad History and Technology, Western Americana, Civil War, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Children's Illustrated, and on occasion, various other interesting areas of fiction and non-fiction.

We are always interested in purchasing books of merit, whether single items or entire collections. We will travel considerable distances to examine larger collections.

FAIRS, SHOWS and EVENTS

We will be exhibiting at the following fairs and shows. If you plan on attending, let us know if there are any books or items you would like us to bring for your examination.

Rose City Used Book Fair. June 14-15, 2013. Friday, 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, OR. Double Tree Hotel - Lloyd Center. Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rose-City-Used-Book-Fair/192987994048319.

WesterCon 66, July 4 - 7, 2013. Hilton Arden West Hotel, 2200 Harvard St, Sacramento, CA 95815

29th Annual Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair. Friday & Saturday - August 2 & 3, 2013. Denver Merchandise Mart, Denver, Colorado.

Pasadena Book and Paper Show. Bustamante Shows.  August 10-11, 2013, Pasadena Center, Pasadena, CA

Sacramento Fall Antiquarian Book Fair. Saturday, September 14th, 2014, Sacramento Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. Saturday and Sunday, October 12th and 13th, 2013, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Mercer St. and 3rd Ave. N., Seattle, WA.

LINKS TO SMALL INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS

Rolling Dreams Press. Jesse Burkhardt has written and published several hardcover railroad photo books on railroads in Oregon and also on his youthful extensive experiences of riding the rails.

Featured Items

Twelve pages of text with thirty-seven large foldout maps of the Snake River with elevations. Privately bound in black cloth with original front wrapper affixed to front cover. First map separating along crease. All others fine. A very good copy. PROFILE SURVEYS IN SNAKE RIVER BASIN, IDAHO; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 347
Marshall, R.B.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office [GPO, USGS], 1914. Twelve pages of text with thirty-seven large foldout maps of the Snake River with elevations. Privately bound in black cloth.. more
Price: $125.00
134 pages with pages 5 through 45 a history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The rest of the pages feature sixteen builder's rod's down photographs with backgrounds of the buildings of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Each full page photograph is mounted on heavy stock paper followed by one to three pages of data specifications for the locomotive type. All the photographs are sharp and clear. Romaine; American Trade Catalogues, pg 301. Bound in original brown pebbled cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine stamped in gilt and border on the covers stamped in blind. A little mottling to the covers. Contemporary owner's signature dated 1874 on the prelim page. Some penciled notes in the margins not affecting the text or photographs. Light wear to the spine ends. A very good copy. BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF LOCOMOTIVES
Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott/M. Baird & Co./Baldwin Locomotive Works [about 1871-1872], 134 pages with pages 5 through 45 a history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The rest of the pages feature.. more
Price: $2,700.00
Signed by Heinlein on the title page. Dust jacket and title page illustrations by Clifford Geary. Very light toning to the edges of the text block, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An exceptional copy. FARMER IN THE SKY
Heinlein, Robert A.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Signed by Heinlein on the title page. Dust jacket and title page illustrations by Clifford Geary. Very light toning to.. more
Price: $1,200.00
Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. THE NECRONOMICON FILES; THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND
Harms, Daniel, and John Wisdom Gonce, III
Mountain View, CA: Night Shade Books, 1998. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. .. more
Price: $120.00
Collects 10 classic stories, each attractively illustrated by Violet LaMont. Spiral bound in colorfully illustrated heavy card covers. Light rubbing along the cover edges. The handles were never used. They show no creasing. A near fine, wonderful bright copy. THE CARRY AWAY BOOK; CLASSIC TALES RETOLD
Child, Mary S., arranged by
New York: Broadland, Inc, 1945. Collects 10 classic stories, each attractively illustrated by Violet LaMont. Spiral bound in colorfully illustrated heavy card covers. Light rubbing.. more
Price: $190.00
"Revised and Illustrated Edition." Inscribed by Lindsay on the reverse of the front free endpaper and on the half-title page, "Please study the table of contents, and the way it is organized. With great good hopes and high great to lovely Lenore Glen from Nicholas Vachel Lindsay - 2318 West Pacific, January 5, 1927, Spokane Washington. Again inscribed on the reverse of the frontis, "I wish I could draw lions and mountain-lions, but all I can draw is flowers and is mountains. Vachel." Highly illustrated by Lindsay on those pages and the four final blank pages. The inscribee, Lenore Glen, is the maiden name of Lenore Glen Offord, the mystery author. The book was included in her collection. Bound in original green cloth with the lettering and rule on the spine in gilt. The text block edges are toned. A very good copy. COLLECTED POEMS
Lindsay, [Nicholas] Vachel
New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. "Revised and Illustrated Edition." Inscribed by Lindsay on the reverse of the front free endpaper and on the half-title page,.. more
Price: $250.00
All twelve issues for Volume Eleven, 1944, including the blue magazine covers, bound in hardcover by the publisher. 574 pages with photographs, diagrams, foldouts and index. Bound in original black pebbled cloth. Endpapers toned. A very good copy. THE MODEL RAILROADER, VOLUME 11, ISSUE NUMBERS 1 - 12, JANUARY - DECEMBER, 1944
Taylor, Frank, editor
Milwaukee, WI: Modelmaker Corp./Kalmbach Publishing, 1944. All twelve issues for Volume Eleven, 1944, including the blue magazine covers, bound in hardcover by the publisher. 574 pages.. more
Price: $65.00
Bound in stapled paper covers. A fine and bright copy. KAYAK 28
Hitchcock, George, editor
Santa Cruz, CA: Kayak Books, Inc., 1972. Bound in stapled paper covers. A fine and bright copy. .. more
Price: $25.00
First state binding with author and title on the spine running bottome to top, European style. 636 copies printed. Bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, mostly hidden under the dust jacket flap. Some toning to the endpapers. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and several tiny tears. ALWAYS COMES EVENING
Howard, Robert E.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1957. First state binding with author and title on the spine running bottome to top, European style. 636 copies printed. Bookplate.. more
Price: $950.00
All three copies signed by Hamilton on the title page. Signed four panel promotional card laid into the first volume. All are fine in fine and bright dust jackets. THE NIGHT'S DAWN TRILOGY. THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION; THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST; and THE NAKED GOD
Hamilton, Peter F.
London: Macmillan, 1996, 1997, 1999, All three copies signed by Hamilton on the title page. Signed four panel promotional card laid into the first volume... more
Price: $650.00
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