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.
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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 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+.
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.....
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, L. A., 1962, 1962. First Thus. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 72pp. Profusely illustrated. Map. Slight edgewear. Near fine.
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.
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.
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.....
Lady Liberty Press, Richmond, 1988, 1988. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illust. Maps. Bibliography. Fine. Scarce.
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.
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.
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.....
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.....
American Vecturist Assoc., Boston, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 142pp. Identification Key. Illust. fos. Vg. No dj (as issued?).
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.
U of Nebr., Lincoln, 1976, 1976. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Pictorial trade wraps. 480pp. Illust. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Lightly soiled. Vg.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....