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St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Publishing Company, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine (minor bump to spine end. pgs clean & bright. small price sticker to back cover of dustjacket). copper cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers 160 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy pictorial dustjacket w/ orange printing. "Written by Montana native, Bill Yenne, (this book) provides railfans with a definitive account of the evolution of GN passenger rail service from 1929 through today's Amtrack service on the route, as well as the story behind the development of GN itself."-Publisher.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1897. Hardcover. Good (leather edges rubbed; leather covers scratched & scuffed; leather spine cracked & worn; spine strip may be peeling; suede cover inset torn at lower edge, peeling, yet fully attached. corners rubbed & curled. front pastedown/hinge cracked, binding mull appears fully attached; back pastedown/hinge cracked, mull holding w/ tear to lower segment. first few pages may be loose, first 70pgs have slice to upper edge; pgs 156 to closing plate have chips or tears to upper edge. closing pgs have light dampstaining to lower edge & foxing w/ chips to edges & corners; some paper wear to lower edge). leather and suede boards w/ gilt printing; leather spine w/ gilt printing. book xi, 158 pgs w/ 124 bw plates. top edge gilt. Top textblock has an indentation that has resulted in the upper page edge damage. Plate XI detached and laid-in while Plate LIV has a tear and crease to lower edge. Other than the closing pages, there appears to be no moisture damage. Pages… Leer más

Montreal/ New York: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / St Martin's Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Black cloth boards with silver lettering, black and green illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 216 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in color. Catalog for the exhibition organized by Pierre Théberge and held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, May 11-Oct. 15, 1995. "The automobile, an object of art and design and a product of the imagination and creativity of inventors, builders, engineers and designers around the world : it is this machine that inspired the exhibition Moving Beauty."- dust jacket.

Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light stains to title page and small tear. Pages are otherwise clear.). Brown cloth boards with black design, gilt illustration of a train and lettering, bw frontispiece, 2 preliminary leaves, [9]-258 pages, illustrated title page and several bw illustrations throughout. Contents include: The world on wheels: The "wheel" instinct -- The Concord coach -- The raging canal -- The iron age -- The iron horse -- Plunging into the wilderness -- Vicious animals -- Habits of engines and train-men -- In the saddle -- Racing and plowing -- Snow bound -- Scalded to death -- All aboard! -- Early and late -- Dead heads -- Working "by the day" -- A slanderer and a weather maker -- Dreaming on the cars -- "Meet me by moonlight" -- The maker of cities -- A caboose ride -- Hatching out a woman -- A flank movement -- Light and shade -- Precious cargoes --… Leer más

San Marino, California: Golden West Books, 1972. Hardcover. VG/G. boards have edge-wear & rubbing to corners & spine ends. creasing to corners. pgs clean. dustjacket torn & worn at top corner; wear to cover edges; scuffs & scratches. textured, red boards w/ gilt spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 224 pgs w/ bw illustrations. pictorial, paper dustjacket. contents as follows: The Vermilion encounter -- A railroad through the wilderness -- The Duluth and Iron Range comes of age -- The Merritts' great adventure -- The DM&N under Rockefeller control -- The view from the year 1901 -- Peace and progress, 1901-1914 -- From World War I through the twenties -- Depression thirties and wartime forties -- Of iron mines and mining operations -- Post-World War II -- Beginning of the Taconite era.

Upland, California: Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 2015. Hardcover. VG. creasing to corners & cover edges; creasing to spine ends. dustjacket has edge-wear; scratches & scoring to back cover; closed tear to cover edge.. oblong, light greyish-blue cloth boards w/ black spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 527 pgs w/ bw & illustrations. glossy, grey and orange pictorial dustjacket. Wonderfully illustrated and annotated with select color illustrations. Includes diagrams.

Wilton, California: Signature Press, 2010. Hardcover. VG+/VG. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has tape repaired tear to top cover edge; spine bottom worn & rubbed.. grey cloth w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyeafs. 496 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, green pictorial dustjacket. Coverage in this book ranges from the earliest days of the Sacramento shops...to the final closue. The book contains over 600 photos along with 21 drawings and maps.

Wilton, California: Signature Press, 2003. Hardcover. VG+ light rubbing to corners; light scratches to boards. pgs clean. dustjacket has light scratches & smudges.. navy boards w/ silver printing. book xiv, 264 pgs w/ bw & select color illustrations. glossy blue pictorial dustjacket. A very nice copy.

Grand Haven, Michigan: Pere Marquette Historical Society, 2002. Hardcover. Good+/G-. sunning to top cover edges. pgs edge toned. back cover flyleaf has foxing/soiling-like smudges. dustjacket sunned at edges; large tear to back cover edge; chips to edges; sticker to back cover.. oblong green cloth boards w/ git design & printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 299 pgs w/ bw photos. glossy, blue pictorial dustjacket. "This book presents the pictorial history of the passenger equipment of the Pere Marquette Railway, from its formation in 1900 through its merger with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1947, to the C & O equipment used thereafter"--Page 5.

Norman, Oklahoma: The Santa Fe Modelers Organization Inc, 1994. Spiral bound. VG. light coffee staining & warping to title pg through pg 11. pgs edge-toned.. oblong, spiral bound pictoral covers. 288 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated with diagrams and component/mechancism breakdown of models.

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good+. front cover & opening pgs have coffee-like staining & slight warping to upper pg edges; recedes further into the book; does not affect text. edge-wear to covers; back cover has price sticker residue; creasing to spine top.. black and white pictorial wrappers w/ blue printing. 419 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Price sticker to inside front cover. Pages clean.

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Hardcover. VG+/G+ light shelf-wear to lower cover/spine edges. minor rubbing to corners. pgs clean. dustjacket cover sunned; edge-wear, scuffs & scratches; back cover scored & discolored.. green boards w/ black, gilt printed spine title plate & gilt printing to upper & lower spine. 196 pgs w/ section of bw illustrations. pictorial dustjacket w/ protective plastic cover.

Wilton, California: Signature Press, 2008. Hardcover. VG+ light wear & creasing to spine bottom. light foxing to textblock fore-edge; instances of light foxing to pg edges. pgs clean. dustjacket has smudges & scratches.. blue cloth boards w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 224 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy blue and pictorial dustjacket. 400+ photographs. A nice copy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight. Red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in B&W. 945 pp. Includes maps and index. First and only published volume of what is to become a set. "Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation" - from dust jacket.

Oslo: Kunstindustrimuseet, 1997. Paperback. VG- ex-museum library copy with stamps and bardcode label. light wear to corners and edges.. Gray and illustrated stapled wraps with cream lettering. 32 unnumbered pages. BW and color illustrations. Text in Norwegian. Catalogue of a 1997 exhibition.

Philadelphia: T. Fitzgibbon, 1856. Softcover. Fair+, lacking maps and has tattered covers.. Printed sewn wraps, reddish brown covers. [2], 142, [12] pages with 54 (of 60) illustrations LACKING FOUR MAPS and the signature containing pages 51-66. The 60 engravings are by Baxter, from his original photographs. Although there are no maps present, there is no evidence to indicate they were ever in this book to begin with. There are no markings or signs of removal or remnants at the four locations where the list of illustrations places them. Scarce.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Hardcover. VG-/VG (binding lightly cocked). Slate cloth/oblong boards; silver lettering. Color-illus. dj with red lettering. xxxiv, 370 pp., full of color and bw images. With a foreword by John McPhee. Ancient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so little changed over time: of canoes, old and new, the people who made them, and the labors and adventures they shared.Transportation.

New York: The South Publishing Press (for Hamburg-American Line), 1908. Original Edition. Softcover. Good, tight copy; some light soiling and with notations next to some names. Name of Mary L. Haines (First-Class passenger) on front cover in pencil.. Ivory stapled wraps with embossed blue art nouveau HAPAG insignia. 24 pp. Atlantic route map on back cover. Classic ocean liner memorabilia. This was for the crossing from New York to Hamburg with stops at Plymouth and Cherbourg, sailing Saturday, June 27, 1908 at 10:00 am. Listed are all passengers for first and second cabin classes, sailing schedules and routes with railway connections, summer cruises within Europe, and all the usual information for passengers sailing Trans-Atlantic (baggage, money, music, telegrams, etc.). Much is written in both English and German. Includes brief information about the line's sailings from Hamburg to South America. The Hamburg-American Line (Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft / HAPAG) later became… Leer más

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Some wear to dj. Contents clean and tight except for small inscription on blank page, possibly by author J. Welles Henderson.. Navy blue cloth over boards; gold lettering on front and spine; color pictorial dj. 287 pp. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates and figures. A fascinating depiction of the life of a sailor from the time of his going off to sea until his death on board or on shore; foreward by Walter H. Annenberg; preface by John S. Carter, President of the Independence Seaport Museum; includes detailed source notes throughout and an extensive bibliography for those wishing to persue the subject further.

Mexico City: Editorial Progreso, 1950. Softcover. VG contents but with very light shelf wear to front cover and age toning inside front cover.. Textured orange, stapled wraps with black lettering. 44 pp. plus fold-out chart. 1 map included. Text in Spanish. "The real contribution of Mexico to the flowering of the fishing industry in California." Looks very interesting! The chart at the back is titled, "Concentracion Pesquera por Bancos, de las Explotaciones hechas por barqos "Via la Pesca" durante los Anos 1943 a 1948 y Desembarcadas en el San Pedro y San Diego, California, E.U. A." (Fishing concentration by banks, the explorations made by boats "Via Fisheries" during the years 1943-1948 and landed in San Pedro and San Diego, California, USA.