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.
New Arrivals
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.....
SILVER KING MINING COMPANY.
Elkhorn, Albany, & Portland, 1913 - 14. 1913. Soft cover. Not a book. Set of four items, all relating to this old silver mine near Mt. Jefferson: 1) Attractive 32pp promo illustrated prospectus in small oblong pictorial purple & silver wraps; 2) "Announcement" (with penned corrections) of stock sale of.....
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.....
BOOT HILL and TALES THE WESTERN TOMBSTONES TELL
Superior, Seattle, 1966 & 1967, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Both copies 1st editions. 4to cloth. 192pp & 191pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos by the author. The second volume has an index. Two volumes comprising the Historic Graves of the Old West series by the fine ghost town researcher &.....
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.
UNION PACIFIC COUNTRY
U of Nebr., Lincoln, 1976, 1976. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Pictorial trade wraps. 480pp. Illust. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Lightly soiled. Vg.
RETROSPECT An Autobiography
Lund MN & Bisbee AZ: Privately Printed, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 323pp. Illust. The author, born in Norway, came to the U.S. & after achieving a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1903, came to Bisbee. This book is his life in "The Copper Capital of the Southwest" & his.....
SACKETT
NY: Bantam, 1961. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing paperback edition with pictorial cover. 120pp. A L'Amour classic that was the first of his famous series of stories on the Sackett family. Good. Some rubbing on front cover.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Lynching of Florentino Suaste
Washington DC: House of Representatives, 1900. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Disbound original printed report HR Doc. N. 142, 56th Congress, 2nd Session. 39pp. "A report from the Secretary of State, with Accompanying Papers, in Relation to the Lynching, in LaSalle County, Tex., on October 5, 1895, of Florentino.....
SASQUATCH - The Apes Among Us (Signed)
Saanichton & Seattle: Hancock House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 492pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Signed by Green on the title page in the presence of your bookseller at the author's residence a number of years ago. One of the most important and groundbreaking books in the field.....
VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA: Its Parks and Resorts
Vancouver: Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Vancouver, B. C., 1920. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Original copy of 3rd edition, previously editions published in 1918 & 1919. Overlapping pictorial 8vo wraps. 70pp. Illustrated with half-tone photos including one tri-fold of Kitsilano Beach with bathers and watchers. Park Statistics.....
PRAIRIE CITY The Story of an American Community
Tulsa: Council Oak, 1985. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the third edition. Cloth. 245pp. Index. Illustrated with new photos not found in the two earlier editions. This is the famous Oklahoma historian of the American Indian's tribute to her home town, Marshall, Oklahoma, and the pioneer era during which.....
PRAIRIE CITY The Story of an American Community (Signed)
NY: Gordian Press, 1969. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the Gordian reprint. Cloth. 245pp. Index. Illustrated with vintage photographs. A new Preface was written for this edition by the author. Presentation copy signed by Debo, "For 'America Alive' / Best wishes to Mr. Linkletter and his associates. / Angie.....
WIDOW AND HEIRS OF ELIJAH BEEBE [To accompany bil H. R. No. 51]
Washington, DC: U. S. House of Rep, 1853. First Edition. Soft cover. Disbound original printed HR document dated Dec. 20, 1853. 33d Congress, 1st Session. 17pp. Report of Mr. Eastman from the Committee on Indian Affairs. The widow and heirs of the late Elijah Beebe petition Congress to cover the.....
WASHINGTON PIONEERS VOLUMES 1 & 2
Olympia: Washington State Genealogical Soc, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing both volumes. Folio blue hardbound with silver embossment of state with title. 648 total pages. Index. Slight bump lower corner volume two, else fine. No dj as issued.
BLUFFING TEXAS STYLE: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins (Signed)
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a hardbound print-on-demand title in the 1st edition. 236pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. INITIALED by Vinson & dated soon after publication. He notes a correction on a page. For anyone who has any interest in Western Americana, Jenkins was.....
CALLING DR. LAURA: A Graphic Memoir
Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin, 2013. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). 4to glossy pictorial wraps. 260pp. Signed by Georges (not inscribed to anyone) along with her little vignette of a puppy. Fine, like new. Scarce signed.