Books on Railroads, Railways and Railroad Models
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  • Abdill, George B.:  A Locomotive Engineer's Album A Saga of Steam Engines in America.  Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with minor rubbing at the ends of the spine area. 190 pages of text and black and white photographs throughout. This is the fifth volume in the Old Railroad series of books.
    TB17501  $30.00




  • Alexander, Edwin P.:  The Collector's Book of the Locomotive.  New York: Bramhall House, 1966. First Edition by Bramhall Hous. Near fine in 1/4 red cloth and paper covered boards with very faint fading around the edges of the boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 2" closed tear on the rear panel at the fold to the spine area and a 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 197 pages with over 150 illustraions in black and white and 44 in full color, with an appendix.
    TB11707  $10.00



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    Ball, Don, Jr.:  The Pennsylvania Railroad 1940s-1950s.  New York: Elm Tree Books, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt decorations on the front board. The lower edge of the front board is slightly faded. In a near fine price clipped dust jacket. A 4to measuring 11 1/4" tall by 10 1/4" deep. 204 pages illustrated with hundreds of full color photographs.
    TB17016  $40.00



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    Beebe, Lucius:  Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1961. . Very good+ in 1/4 black cloth and light green cloth covered boards with gilt and red text on the spine and with decorated end sheets. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with a 1/2 inch slit to the black cloth at the lower edge of the front joint and with light wear and rubbing to the cloth at the heel of the spine and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. In a good, price clipped dust jacket with numerous tears and chipping. 574 numbered pages of photographs and text.
    TB25988  $45.00




  • Berger, Terry, and Robert Reid:  Great American Scenic Railroads.  New York: E. P. Dutton, (1985). First Edition, First printing. Near fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 10 by 7 3/4 inches with the front panel slightly tanned and with slight separation from the binding (but not loose). Without a dust jacket as issued. 112 pages of text and heavily illustrated with color photographs throughout. A compendium of scenic railroad lines throughout the country.
    TB25569  $15.00



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    Board Of Railroad Commissioners:  Drawings Of Maps, Bridges, Profiles, Coal Burning Locomotives, Chairs, Brakes, Splices, &c. Accompanying The Report Of The Board Of Railroad Commissioners For 1856.  Albany, NY: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1857. First Edition. Very good- in its original, patterned, dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 5 5/8 inches with heavy wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine such that the cloth is worn down to the edges of the text block. The cloth is also worn through in several spots at the lower edges of the boards. The upper 1 1/2 inches of both joints are splitting from their respective boards. Without a dust jacket. No pagination. Illustrated throughout with two, large fold-out maps, 8 plans of bridges, 5 locomotives from the Hudson River line, two from the New Haven Railroad and one from the Long Island Railroad, Rail sections from the New York Central, Albany and West Stockbridge and Hudson River Railroads, 7 drawings for tunnels, 3 miscellaneous drawings, and 29 profiles. The profile for the New York and Erie Railroad has been spliced at a torn fold line.
    TB31218  $385.00



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    Bohn, Dave, and Rodolfo Petschek:  Kinsey Photographer A Half Century of Negatives by Darius and Tabatha May Kinsey / Volume Three The Locomotive Portraits.  New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in brown paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and on the front board with only hints of rubbing to the lower edges of the boards. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Locomotive essays by John T. Labbe. Coordination and oral history by mary Millman, technical assistance by the Whatcom Musuem of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington. 143 pages of text and wonderfully detailed black and white photographs.
    TB19856  $65.00




  • Bracken, Jeanne Munn (Editor):  Iron Horses Across America: The Transcontinental Railroad.  Carlisle, Mass.: Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1995. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in printed, heavy, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2" by 5 1/4". Without a dust jacket as issued. 63 pages of text illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. One of the volumes in the Perspectives on History Series.
    TB25589  $5.00




  • Cohen, Marvin H. (Editor):  Twentieth Annual Steam Passenger Service Directory, 1985: An Illustrated Directory Listing Tourist Railroad, Trolley and Museum Operations with Regularly Scheduled or Intermittent Passenger Service .  Middletown, New York: Empire State Railroad Museum, Inc., 1985. . Very good in printed, heavy, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2". Without a dust jacket as issued. 200 pages of text illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.
    TB25588  $5.00




  • Fitzsimons, Bernard:  150 Years of North American Railroads.  Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A quarto measuring 12" by 9 1/4". In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel. 224 pages including an index, text and illustrated with color photographs throughout.
    TB25593  $10.00




  • Harrison, Richard J.:  Long Island Rail Road Memories The Making of a Steam Locomotive Engineer.  New York: Quadrant Press, Inc., 1981. . Near fine in heavy, printed, paper wraps over a double stapled binding. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8" with light soiling to the front panel. Without a dust jacket as issued. 64 pages of text and photographs.
    TB25574  $20.00




  • Henry, Robert S.:  The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts.  Cedar Rapids: Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1945. Reprint. Near fine in printed, heavy, blue paper wraps over a double stapled binding. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a dust jacket as issued. A reprint from volume XXXII, No. 2, September, 1945 of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review containing pages 171 to 194.
    TB25585  $10.00



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    Huxtable, Nils:  Classic North American Steam.  New York: Gallery Books, 1990. First Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A folio measuring 14" by 10" . In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 128 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Heavily illustrated with crisp, clear black and white photographs of steam engines.
    TB25558  $15.00



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    Jenson, Oliver:  The American Heritage History of Railroads in America.  New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. First Edition. Fine in blue and white stripped cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine. A quarto measuring 12" by 9". Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is within a fine paper covered slip case. 320 pages including an index, text and illustrated with black and white and color photographs throughout.
    TB25597  $15.00




  • Johnson, Ron:  The Best of Maine Railroads.  South Portland, Maine: Self-published, 1985. First Edition. Fine in heavy, stiff, printed, wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8 1/2". Without a dust jacket as issued. 144 pages of text and photographs including a three page index.
    TB25584  $30.00




  • Kramer, Frederick A.:  Building The Independent Subway.  New York: Quadrant Press, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Very good in heavy, stiff, printed, wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8 1/2" with a 1" chip from the fore edge of the front panel. Without a dust jacket as issued. 81 pages of text and photographs detailing the history of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. "The Technology and Intense Struggle of New York City's Most Gigantic Venture".
    TB25582  $30.00




  • Lind, Alan R.:  Chicago Surface Lines An Illustrated History.  Park Forest, Ill.: Transport History Press, 1979. Third Edition of August, 1979. Fine in simulated red leather cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with map end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with mild light wear and rubbing to the upper edge of the spine area. 496 pages of text with nearly 600 black and white photographs throughout and containing a Chicago transit chronology from 1837 to 1947, photographs of all car types, a history of all streetcar and bus lines with detailed track and route maps.
    TB17502  $60.00




  • Martin, Albro:  Railroads Triumphant The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 yellow cloth and paper covered boards with metallic red text on the spine. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. 428 pages including an index, text and illustrations.
    TB17146  $8.40



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    Ogburn, Charlton:  Railroads: The Great American Adventure.  Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1977. . Near fine in black cloth covered boards with light blue text on the spine and the blue sillouhette of a steam engine on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7". In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a number of short closed tears to the ends of the spine area and to the edges of the panels. 203 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs by James A. Sugar.
    TB25560  $5.00



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    Phillips, Lance:  Yonder Comes The Train.  Secaucus: Castle Books, c 1965. Reprint of 1986. Near fine in light orange paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A folio measuring 13 1/2" by 10" with minor dust stains to the top and fore edges of the text block. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with the plastic laminate beginning to come off over a small portion of the front panel. 395 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with over 450 reproductions of early works of art, drawings and black and white photographs.
    TB25557  $10.00



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    Poirier, David A.:  Can't Ys Hear The Whistle Blowin' New London Engine House and Turntable Archaeological Preserve.  New London, Conn.: New London Development Corporation, (2002). First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 21 pages of text and illustrated throughout from black and white photographs.
    TB30735  $15.00




  • Porter, Horace:  Railway Passenger Travel 1825-1880.  Maynard, Mass.: Chandler Press, 1987. . Near fine in printed, heavy, blue paper wraps over a double stapled binding. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2". Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, containing roughly 32 pages of text and reproductions of earlier works of art. A reprint of a Scribner's publication of 1888.
    TB25587  $10.00



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    Prince, Bernadine LeMay:  The Alaska Railroad In Pictures 1914-1964 (Vols 1 & 2).  Anchorage, Alaska: Ken Wray's Print Shop, 1964. First Edition, First Printings. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front boards. Both are small quartos of 10 1/2 by 7 inches with a sewn and rounded and backed binding with a hollow back spine. Both volumes are in very good+, unclipped dust jacket (no price) with a 1/8" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area on volume 1, slight tanning to the spine areas of both and with light soiling at the fore edges of the panels on both books. Signed, warmly inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author on the title page. This set is numbered 74 on the title page of volume 1 out of a first edition print run of only 1,000 copies. Volume 1 contains 466 pages of text and is extensively illustrated from black and white photographs throughout. Volume 2 contains pages 467 to 1092 and illustrated as above. The two volumes contain over 2,100 photographs and line drawings. The first edition of this title was limited to 1,000 and according to the colophon of volume 2 it was almost sold out as of May 1966. An exceptionally clean and handsome set with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29915  $700.00




  • Rosenbaum, Joel, and Tom Gallo:  The Broadway Limited.  Piscataway, NJ: Railpace Company Publications, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An oblong octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 11" with light creasing to the front panel and slight soiling to the title page. Without a dust jacket as issued. 96 pages of text and photographs in both color and black and white . The Broadway Limited was a special, all-Pullman, train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
    TB25580  $20.00




  • Shaughnessy, Jim:  Delaware & Hudson.  Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1967. 5th Printing of Nov., 1974. Fine in olive green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board and with decorated end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and with light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area and at the upper edge of the front panel & with a 1/4" deep chip on the rear panel. "The history of an important railroad whose antecedent was a canal nework to transport coal." "The bridge line to New England and Canada." With 488 pages, 625 illustrations, album, roster, maps, appendix and an index.
    TB15228  $40.00



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    Sherry, Allen:  New Haven Division, Murray Hill To Cedar Hill.  Hopatcong, N.J.: Parlor Car Enterprises, 1988. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 96 pages of text and illustrated throughout with both black and white and color photographs and a map.
    TB29199  $25.00



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    Theroux, Paul:  The Great Railway Bazaar.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1992). Collector's Edition. Fine in full black leather covered boards with four compartments on the spine with gilt text and decorations. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. Containing 342 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Travel Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB29288  $75.00



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    Theroux, Paul:  Riding the Iron Rooster by Train Through China.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 inches with a small red remainder mark on the lower edge of the text block. In a fine jacket with the price intact on the front flap with a tiny faint closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel at the fold to the front flap. Signed without an inscription or date on the title page by the author. The author's account of his extensive travel through China by railroad. 480 pages of text. Illustrated with map end sheets. A fine, bright and clean copy.
    TB30284  $35.00




  • Theroux, Paul:  Riding the Iron Rooster by Train Through China.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket with the price intact on the front flap with a tiny faint closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel at the fold to the front flap. The author's account of his extensive travel through China by railroad. 480 pages of text.
    TB14578  $21.00




  • Tufnell, Robert:  The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Railway Locomotives.  Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Near fine in light gray cloth covered boards with bold black text stamping on the spine. A quarto measuring 11 1/2" by 8 1/2". In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket. 224 pages including an index, text and illustrated with color photographs throughout.
    TB25594  $10.00




  • Various Authors:  All Aboard For Yesterday! A Nostalgic History of Railroading in Maine.  Camden, Maine: Down East Books, (1979). . Very good+ in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 168 pages illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions.
    TB25572  $20.00



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    Wayner, Robert J. (Editor):  The Pullman Scrapbook.  New York: Wayner Publications, (1971). . Very good in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4 by 8 3/8 inches with light soiling to the front and rear panels. "A treasury of Pullman history and operation from the pages of The Pullman News." (from the front panel) 100 pages of text.
    TB25570  $50.00




  • Whitehouse, Patrick B. (Editor):  World Of Trains.  London: Hamlyn/New English Library, 1976. . Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with bold gilt test stamped on the spine. A quarto measuring 11 3/4" by 8 1/4" with a bump to the foot of the spine. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket. 144 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color photographs.
    TB25592  $10.00




  • Williams, Guy R.:  The World of Model Trains.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in illustrated cloth covered boards with red text on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with minor light wear at the upper edges of the spine and panels. 256 pages consisting of text, index and illustrated with 262 photographs, 39 of which are in full color.
    TB17145  $18.00



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    Williamson, R. S.:  Report Of Explorations In California For Railroad Routes, To Connect with The Routes Near The 35th And 32nd Parallels Of North Latitude.  Washington, DC: War Department, 1853. First Edition. Very good in its original blind embossed, black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 11 3/8 by 8 3/4 inches with the cloth worn through at the heel of the spine, a 1/4" closed tear to the cloth at the head of the spine, the cloth is worn through at the tips of the boards and the cloth at the lower edges of the boards is worn through in several areas. The contents are clean, largely free of foxing and tanning and there are no prior ownership markings of any kind. Volume V of Reports Of Explorations And Surveys, To Ascertain The Most Practicable and Economical Route For A Railroad From The Mississippi River The The Pacific Ocean. 370 pages of text followed by ten botany plates, an index of 13 pages, the botanical report by E. Durand and T. C. Higard, 18 plates, and appendices. Illustrated with a frontispiece lithograph, 61 plates (which includes 3 color maps and 8 fold-out charts) and numerous wood engravings within the text.
    TB30196  $350.00



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    Wright, Roy V., Editor:  Locomotive Cyclopedia Of American Practice.  New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1925. Seventh Edition of 1925. Very good+ in its original black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and blind embossed front and rear boards. A thick and heavy quarto of 11 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches with a 1/3 inch closed tear to the cloth at the head of the spine, several very short closed tears to the heel of the spine and spots on the lower edges of the boards where the cloth is rubbed through and with a dated "1925" gift inscription on the first free end page. The contents are clean and tight with no foxing, tanning or damage. 1130 pages of text including an index, directory of products and text. Illustrated throughout from images from line drawings and black and white photographs Due to the size and weight of this volume the typical shipping costs we list will be exceeded. We will contact you for additional fees.
    TB32447  $400.00






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