UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN: A Story of Violent Faith
NY: Doubleday, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 372pp. Illus. Index. Map. Bibliography. Excellent account of Mormon radical fundamentalism. Fine, like new in dj.
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CHOCTAW LINE GRAND EXCURSION 4th OF JULY FORT RENO TO SHAWNEE
n.p. Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Gulf RR, 1895. Original. Soft cover. Dramatic original poster with period fonts large and small, and a decorated border, advertising a Fourth of July excursion from Ft. Reno (Oklahoma Territory) to Shawnee (OT). The section from OKC to Shawnee was to open for the first time.....
THE OFFICIAL STATE ATLAS OF KANSAS: Compiled from Government Surveys, County Records and Personal Investigations
Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Huge quarto original one-half cloth & leather. 339pps. This is a fabulous volume. Here is what William Reese (Six Score #83) said of it in his bibliography of 150 best ranching books: "These atlases were designed so that.....
NO MORE BUFFALO (Signed)
K. C. Lowell Pr, 1982. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is #1. Custom bound full calf with embossed image & title on front cove, quarto. 129pp. Illus. Signed on special limitation page by the great Western & Montana sculptor, & publisher Payson Lowell. I wish.....
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.
UNION PACIFIC COUNTRY
U of Nebr., Lincoln, 1976, 1976. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Pictorial trade wraps. 480pp. Illust. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Lightly soiled. Vg.
NO LIFE FOR A LADY (Signed)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Hardcover. Not first, but perhaps 2nd printing. Cloth. 356pp. Illustrated by the great Edward Borein. Endpaper maps, "A Sketch Map for the Story (title). Signed with "best wishes" by Cleaveland. This book is a classic of the old cow country of New Mexico. From the dj.....
GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS A Tribute to the Mountain Men
L.A. Nash, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. True first printing. Cloth. 349pp. Illus. Maps. Chronology. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps, "Rocky Mountain Fur Trading Area, 1806-1843." Former owners' small address sticker at top of ffep. An acclaimed book & "Tribute to the first Westerners". This is not only the stated.....
LAKE LOUISE: A Diamond in the Wilderness
n.p. Altitude, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated 4to cloth. 128pp. Illustrated with vintage photos and prints in sepia, color, and b/w. Many of them are the exquisite photos of Carole Harmon's grandfather, the great Banff photographer, Byron Harmon. Most of the color photos are fine reproductions of original.....
COW COUNTRY
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Early reprint of 1927 book. Golden yellow pictorial cloth. 242pp. Illustrated by James. Eight stories. In Frazier's bib of James' books. he found no Scribners' printings between the second printing of 1927 and a 1945 reprint. However, an Internet search turns up 1930 and.....
SASQUATCH DISCOVERED: The Biography of Dr. John Bindernagel
Surrey & Blaine: Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada, 2022. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial glossy trade wraps. 293pp. Illus. Appendices include Index. Notes. Just released biography of the esteemed sasquatch / Bigfoot researcher on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bindernagel was the author of two important books on sasquatch.....