Philadelphia, PA: J.G. Brill Company, 1915. First printing. Hardcover. All twelve issues of Brill Magazine for the year 1915. A total of 384 pages with photographs, car diagrams, maps, car data, and index for 1915 in the final issue. All 12 portrait inserts are present. All 12 issues with the..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works/Burnham, Williams & Co., 1915. First edition. Oblong softcover. Code word, "Redeposit." 32 pages of mostly narrow-gauge locomotives with builder's photographs with data on the facing page destined for Japan, Yucatan, Morocco, India, Australia, Chile, and many others. Signature of George W. Armstrong on the front..... More
London: Locomotive Magazine [about 1930]. First edition. Hardcover. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway. 51 pages with a history of the company, locomotive photographs, eight in color, locomotive data, and rosters. Quarter bound in original black cloth spine with brown cloth over the boards with lettering and detailed locomotive illustration..... More
Rochester, NY: General Railway Signal Company, 1915. Hardcover. The catalog is unpaginated. It is devided into four sections plus index; A] Mechanical Interlocking Machines; B] Mechanically Operated Signals; C] Mechaically Operated Switch Movements; D] Ground and Leadout Connections. Pages bulk 1.2 inches. Many illustrated examples of equiment with descriptions and..... More
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London: Iliffe & Sons, Ltd./Motor Traction, 1915. Hardcover. Collects all weekly issues for Julyy through December, 1915. 484 pages with numerous photographs of the use of various motored vehicles of the day, illustrations, diagrams, and a wealth of information on vehicles, motors and financial accounting for the use of motored..... More
Southern Railway Company, 1916 and 1918. Hardcover. Volume I: 100 pages, many as foldouts featuring diagrams and dimensions of equiment and signs such as a baggage wagon, ballast fork, cattle guard, clearance post, depot platform and curbing, frogs, wooden highway bridge, lever car, push car, signs, ties, wooden water tank..... More
Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1897. Hardcover. 214 pages with numerous statistical tables, listings of officers for railroads in Illinois, rules and laws, index, etc. plus ten full-page photographs in the rear. Large [30 x 18 inch] folded 1897 railroad map of Illinois laid in. Insect munching to the..... More
Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Company / The Pemberton Press / Frontier America Corporation, 1976. Hardcover. Essential bibliographies for historians and collectors of Western Americana. Both volumes are fine, issued without dust jackets, housed withing a fine example of the slipcase. The books and slipcase are as new. More
Leyburn, UK: Tartarus Press, 2010. First edition thus. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. A collection of eight stories originally published in 1968 by Gollancz, London. New introduction by R.B. Russell. Dust jacket illustration," The Singing Garden," by Stephen J. Clark. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. The sixth volume in The "Creeps" Library. Collects twelve stories by E.S. Knights, Allan Govan, Hester Gorst, Charles LLoyd and others. Barron; Horror Literature, 3-23. Previous owner name and date to upper corner of the front endpaper. Orange cloth. Spine lightly soiled. Bright..... More
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. Soft cover. Signed by Atwood on the title page. A poetry collection. No note of later printing on the copyright page. A very good plus copy. More
Toronto: House of Anansi Press, Ltd., 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Atwood on the half-title page. A book about Canadian literature, a criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Very light toning to the text. Two light bumps to the upper corners of the covers..... More
Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Atwood on the title page; "For Larry - Best wishes - Margaret Atwood." Tiny bump to the upper corner of the rear cover, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket with corresponding tiny bump. More
New York: HarperPrism / Harper Prism / HarperCollins, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the half-title page by Beagle, and by the contributors Edward Bryant, Melanie Tem, Lucy Taylor, P.D. Cacek, Robert Devereaux, and S.P. Somtow. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Timberline issue. number 1123 of 1250 numbered copies signed by Beebe and Clegg on special limitation page. Also, inscribed on the reverse of the front endpaper by them; "To Victor O. Goodwin, with all good will from Lucius Beebe, Charles..... More
New Castle, VA: Cheap Street, 1991. King, Judy J. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Number 117 of the 126 copy Collector's Edition signed by Benford and King. Very fine in very fine dust jacket from paper hand made in Japan, within the publisher's slipcase. More
New Castle, VA: Cheap Street, 1985. Uncorrected proof. Hardcover. Number 4 of only seven proof copies produced by Cheap Street. Signed by Benford on the title page. Printed verso only. Hand printed, stitched, and bound. Bound in blue cloth with title lable pressed onto the front cover. A fine copy..... More
Penyfford, Chester, UK: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies. Collects twenty of the Benson brother's stories, plus epilogue and bibliography. Introduction by Hugh Lamb. Dust jacket illustration by Richard Lamb. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. More
Hamilton, MT: OSO Publishing, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bowden on the title page. Southern Pacific's Modoc Line traversed one of the most isolated sections of northeastern California and western Nevada. In this vast, lonely land, temperatures could range all the way from triple digits in the summer to..... More
Los Altos, CA: Robert W. Brown, 1969. Magazine. All 6 issues for volume 6, with photographs, and plans. A few other narrow gauge plan sheets laid in. Predecessor to Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. All nicely cared for fine copies. More
Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications/CD Publications, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Number 353 of 400 copies signed by Burk and all the contributors, except the late Jack Cady, on the special limitation pages. An anthology collecting twenty-seven stories by F. Paul Wilson, Thomas Ligotti, Melanie Tem, Peter Straub, Gary..... More
Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., Publishers, 1947. First edition. first printing. Hardcover. Inscribed in blind by Burroughs on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzana, California." Publisher's label fixed to the front paste-down endpaper stating this book survived the infamous storeroom fire. Heins, FL-1. Zeuschner 578..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [Printed early-1930s], 1929. J. Allen St. John. Grosset & Dunlap edition. Hardcover. Referenced in Heins, ERB Bibliography LJ-5; Zeuschner, ERB Bibliography 689; and Lukes, ERB G&D Bibliography; book 28-1c, jacket 28-1c. Dust jacket, frontis and three plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Bound..... More
Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club / World Press Inc., 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition number 4327 of 6000 copies signed by Cafky on special limitation page. 467 pages with many photos and color illustrations plus five maps in the rear pocket. Near fine in about very good dust..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 1997. Alan M. Clark. First edition. Hardcover. Number 33 of 100 copies signed by Cave and the illustrator, Alan M. Clark, on a special limitation page. Collects twenty-five stories. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket housed within the publisher's fine slipcase. An as new..... More
