THE HAUNTING OF VANCOUVER ISLAND: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side (Signed)
n.p. Touchwood Editions, 2017. Soft cover. 5th printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 367pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author to C____. Fine copy.
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HOME GROUND: Language for an American Landscape (Signed)
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 447pp. Illus. Intro. Bibliographic Note. Index of Terms. Index of Places. The Writers. Signed (signed only) on the title page by both editors. A wonderful reference work that works as literature describing landscape with geological and other.....
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 919pp. Illus. Index. A huge volume of information on the subject. Fine, like new in dj. Offered by a real flesh and blood bookseller, not some phantom with a boiler-plate listing that suggests the copy may ore.....
THE DESIGN & PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN & AMERICA: 1720-1920
New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press & British Library, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 159pp. Fine and descriptive Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Fine, like new in dj. A useful and attractive reference book for collectors.
CHASING BILLY THE KID: Frank Stewart and the Untold Story of the Manhunt for Billy the Kid (Signed)
Three Rivers Publishing, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 423pp. Illus. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Signed by both authors. Laid in is the publisher's tri-fold color promo. A huge book loaded with information. Fine, like new in dj.
F-F-F-FRANK POLK: An Uncommonly Frank Autobiography (Signed)
Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1981. Soft cover. 2nd printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 123pp. Illustrated by Joe Beeler. Foreword by Slim Pickins. Presentation under the frontispiece by Polk to his friend, "Brownie." Greatl little personal stories of cowboy life by the author. Small dime-sized abrasion on front cover from improper removal of.....
THE PROPER DISTINCTION BETWEEN LAW AND GOSPEL: Thirty-Nine Evening Lectures
St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. q. Hardcover. Later printing. Silver-stamped black cloth. 426pp. Former owner's stamp front and rear paste downs. Walther, the first president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, presently a lengthy series of lectures on this subject and the result is one of the most important expositions.....
BIBLE COMMENTARY: The Minor Prophets
St. Louis: Concordia. Hardcover. Caveat right off the bat: ffep with big clip and pencil note: "The first 15 pages of this book are misplaced to begin with page 1." The next 8 pps are clipped at the upper corner. The previous owner inserted a couple of pages from another.....
THE EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE: With Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek Dictionaries, etc.
McLean VA: MacDonald, 1970. Hardcover. No date of publication given; est. 1970. Huge think gilt-stamped 40 hardbound. 1,340 pp + 128pp & 79pp of supplementary material. Gentle ex-lib with pocket inside back cover. Moderate wear to extremities.
FINALLY FREE
Boston: Boston Sunday Herald, 1990. First Edition. Soft cover. Original edition of the Boston Sunday Herald dated February 11, 1990. 80pp. Illus. The big cover story is on Nelson Mandela's release, but the issue has all the news and sports. In vg condition with just a little aging and a......
HANDS AT WORK Portraits and Profiles of People Who Work with Their Hands (Signed)
Lopez Island: Heron Moon Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial hardbound. 140 pp. Beautifully taken photos of working hands in company with all kinds of tools and items. Signed & dated by the writer, Graville, in year of publication. Fine, like new in dj.
THE RHODE ISLAND COMPANY Part I - Equipment Roster
The Branford Electric Railway Assoc., Short Beach, CT. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 94pp. Illust. Endpaper maps. Slight crease extreme bottom corner of front cover & first few pages. Vg+.
THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, 1980, 1980. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Light blue printed & pictorial wraps. 259pp. + (47pp. ads). Modern 1 page intro by Eugene Boswell. Reading copy; short tear closed on front cover; soiled; discoloration on back cover; several pages formerly creased at bottom corner; one leaf.....
CARS AND CAR EQUIPMENT Volume II
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, 1972, (1924), 1972. Facsimile reprint. Soft cover. Facsimile reprint. 4to printed wraps. 19pp. Illustrated with photos & blueprints of interurban & other urban railway cars. Near fine. Scarce. 1972, (1924).
Interurbans Special 33. (Vol. 20, No. 4) LOS ANGELES RAILWAYS PRE-HUNTINGTON CARS 1890 - 1902
Interurbans, L. A., 1962, 1962. First Thus. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 72pp. Profusely illustrated. Map. Slight edgewear. Near fine.
THE CABLE CAR BOOK
Bonanza, NY, 1983, 1983. First Thus. Hardcover. Reprint, 1st thus. Oblong cloth. 152pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Appendix. Index. Fine in pc dj with rather long (2" and 3"), but long closed tear on front panel & also back panel. Nice reading copy.
WEST BRANCH TROLLEYS Street Railways of Lycoming and Clinton Counties
Privately Printed, Forty Fort (Pa), 1978, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 96pp. Illustrated with photos & maps. "This volume is the fifth in our series dealing with the street railway lines of Pennsylvania on a county by county basis." Fine.
THE NATIONAL TRAMWAY MUSEUM
National Tramway Museum, Printed by Jarrold Printing, Norwich, 1989, 1989. Soft cover. 1st thus? Colorful pictorial stapled wraps. (28pp.). Beautifully illustrated. Vg with slight bump top left corner. The musum, for folks like me who regretfully haven't been there, is in Derbyshire, England, "readily accessible", its website says, "from Sheffield.....
RICHMOND 1888 Dawn Of The Electric Street Railway Era
Lady Liberty Press, Richmond, 1988, 1988. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illust. Maps. Bibliography. Fine. Scarce.
THE LIBERTY BELL ROUTE'S 1000 SERIES INTERURBAN CARS
Lehigh Valley Chapter, Nat'l Railway Hist Soc., Allentown, 1964. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps, plastic spiral bound. 82pp. Illust. Diagram. Some spiral rounds missing, else vg.
A CENTURY OF INCLINES
The Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline, Pittsburgh, n.d. First Thus. Soft cover. Pictorial stapled wraps. 24pp. Illust. Attractive booklet. Fine. n.d.
The Cable Car in America A New Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways
Burbank, California, U.S.A. Darwin Pubns, 1982. First Thus. Hardcover. 2nd edition, 1st printing thus. 4to hardbound, gilt-stamped. 484pp. Illust. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps of San Francisco rails (front eps) & Kansas City (back eps). Great photos! Lots of history! Vg in dj with a couple of short tears & light.....
CANADIAN CAR BUILDERS SERIES : No. 3: Miscellaneous Builders
Ontario Electric Railway Historical Assoc. (Scarborough), n.d. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. (16pp.). Illust. "Souvenir of Halton County Radial Railway Operating Railway Museum." Photos are of cars of Montreal Tramways, Toronto Transportation, B. C. Electric, Calgary Municipal, Hull Electric, etc.. more Canadian trams & railways. Curling to upper right.....
FEISEL'S CATALOGUE OF PARKING TOKENS OF THE WORLD 1966
American Vecturist Assoc., Boston, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 142pp. Identification Key. Illust. fos. Vg. No dj (as issued?).
THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Carillon Park, Dayton, (1971), 1971. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illust. Brief introduction on first railway in New York, but booklet about Dayton, Ohio, electric railway. Small nick bottom of back cover at fold; near fine.