New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1911. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A collection of fifteen short stories including Shanley's Luck, which is based on the Canadian Pacific Railroad Beavermouth Riots of 1885 that interfered with construction until the legendary Sam Steele intervened. Packard's first book. Frontis color illustration by... More about ON THE IRON AT BIG CLOUD
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A valuable reference for professional mining geologists and engineers. 696 pages with photographs, tables, figures, references and index. Short marker strike on the front endpaper. Near fine in very good dust jacket with several tiny edge tears. More about EXPLORATION AND MINING GEOLOGY
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Containing more than 5,000 individual items,. Explores the folklore, history, and frontiwer humor of New Mexico. Presented in dictionary form for easy reference, and main entries give the location of the place named, highways leading to it... More about NEW MEXICO PLACE NAMES; A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
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La Mirada, CA: Four Ways West Publications, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 224 pages of black and white and color photographs, maps, schedules, line ups, and ads. Laminated color pictorial covers. Fine and bright, issued without dust jacket. An as new copy. More about NORTHERN PACIFIC PICTORIAL, VOLUME SIX [VOL. 6]: FREIGHT TRAIN SERVICE ALONG THE MAIN STREET OF...
Lynchburg, VA: TLC Publishing, 2002. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Combines the fascinating story of these trains and their creators with a marvelous collection of photographs, diagrams, and promotional material. 118 pages with bibliography and notes.Map endpapers. Bound in illustrated laminated boards. A fine and bright copy, issued without dust jacket. More about BURLINGTON ROUTE; THE EARLY ZEPHYRS
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, no date. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Bound in original orange cloth with lettering stamped in black. Light fade to spine, else a near fine copy, without dust jacket. More about MAZA OF THE MOON
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House; Publishers, 1967. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Collects all new stories by Robert Aikman, Joseph Payne Brennan, William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, and others. 2486 copies printed. Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, #98. Bookplate on the front endpaper. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. More about TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT
San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1965. Hardcover. Better known as The Great Locomotive Chase, this is a reprint of the account of the 1862 raid during the Civil War of J.J. Andrews and his men through Tennessee into Georgia, there seizing the steam engine, The General, and it's train... More about IN PURSUIT OF THE GENERAL: HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR RAILROAD RAID
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of six strange Japanese stories, three essays on Japanese studies, and seven essays on what seem to be personal experiences and insights. Bound in dark blue cloth with stunning illustrations of lillies in lighter shades of blue to... More about SHADOWINGS
Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 255 pages with photographs and maps. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. More about RAILROADING IN SOUTHERN OREGON AND THE FOUNDING OF MEDFORD
Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 255 pages with photographs and maps. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. More about RAILROADING IN SOUTHERN OREGON AND THE FOUNDING OF MEDFORD
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1993. Collector's edition. Hardcover. Number 381 of 500 copies with publisher's numbered plate laid in. Facsimile of the scarce 1934 edition. The story book with Oz characters that come out and walk. Envelope containing ramp, Oz characters and plastic fittings banded to rear cover of book... More about THE WIZARD OF OZ WADDLE BOOK
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1951. Seventh edition, tenth printing. Hardcover. The subjects covered in Volume I are Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, and Oxides; Volume II are, Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, etc.; Volume III, Silica Minerals. A total of 1292 pages with numerous tables... More about THE SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA AND EDWARD SALISBURY DANA, YALE UNIVERSITY...
Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2000. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 160 pages of photographs of Northern Pacific Railroad scenes with lengthy descriptions on the page opposite. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. More about RAILROAD SHUTTERBUG; JIM FREDRICKSON'S NORTHERN PACIFIC
Chicago: Reilly & Lee [copyright 1923]. John R. Neill. Later printing. Hardcover. Printed about 1948. Referenced in Bienvenue; L. Frank Baum, page 105. Printed endpapers. 32 page gatherings with stitching between pages 80-81, 112-113, and 144-145. Spine imprint in "semi script." Bound in original gray cloth with color illustrated paper... More about THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1987. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Precedes the US edition by three months. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. More about THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN
Buffalo, NY: Weirdbook Press, 1984. Stephen E. Fabian. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Of a total of 1500 copies printed, this is one of 300 copies bound in hardcover. A hint of bumping to the upper corners, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket with short closed tear to the rear panel. More about PULPTIME; BEING A SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, H.P. LOVECRAFT, AND THE KALEM CLUB, AS...
Burlington Route/Great Northern Railway/Northern Pacific Railway, 1935. Softcover. Sixty-four pages featuring the tours and rates, maps and photographs of the parks and destinagitons, and center two-page system route map. Bound in original cream colored stiff paper covers illustrated in tan and green. "Air Conditioned Equipment" tag tipped onto the front..... More about BURLINGTON ESCORTED TOURS: THE NATIONAL PARKS, YELLOSTONE, GLACIER, RAINIER, CRATER LAKE,...
Yellowstone Park, WY: C.A. Hamilton [early 1920's]. Postcards. The Asahel Curtis color tinted photo post cards were commissioned by the Northern Pacific Railway Co. "Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) was a photographer based in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. His career included documentation of the Klondike Gold Rush period..... More about 50 YELLOWSTONE PARK VIEWS
Boulder, CO: Pruett Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Limited edition, number 1593 of 4000 numbered copies signed Crossen on a special limitation page. Built to serve the gold and silver mines in the Rockies west of Boulder, Colorado. 417 pages with photographs and maps, plus all maps present... More about THE SWITZERLAND TRAIL OF AMERICA
Glasgow and London: Blakie and Son, 1860. First edition. Hardcover folio. Eighty four pages of text with woodcuts, plus all twenty dimensional diagram plates in the rear. Plate numbers begin with XXXI, a continuation of the series in the author's work on Railway Machinery, issued in 1855 in thirty parts... More about RECENT PRCTICE IN THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: (BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO "RAILWAY MACHINERY,")...
London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Co., Limited, 1871. First edition, first printing. Hardcover folio. Volume I, 320 pages of text, wood cuts, and index. Chapter topics on the history of the locomotive engine and its parts, heat and steam, valve gears, link motion, slide valve, locomotive boiler, tank... More about LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, AND THE MECHANISM OF RAILWAYS: A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND...
New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1988. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed, plus three Japanese characters, by Wilson on the half-title page. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. More about BLACK WIND
New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by Wilson on the front free endpaper. The merest hint of toning to the text block edges, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket. More about SOFT AND OTHERS: 16 STORIES OF WONDER AND DREAD
Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Publications, 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Number 197 of 500 numbered copies signed by Wilson on a special limitation page. Card with illustration from the front panel of the dust jacket laid in. Fine in near fine and bright dust jacket with a light crease... More about SECRET CIRCLES; A REPAIRMAN JACK NOVEL
