NY: Rand McNallly, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparent 1st printing. Pictorial and decorated grey cloth. 137pp. Illus. Pictorial endpapers. Rather an unusual book published for schools for children to learn about such things. Ex-library copy in good condition. We note a black mark along the edge of the back cover.....
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth.109pp. Illus. Ex-library story book for kids. Worn at cover corners & moderately soiled. Fair, decent reading copy. Rather scarce.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. New Edition. Hardcover. New Edition. Pictorial cloth. 220pp. Lovely color & b/w illustrations by Attilio Mussino. Endpapers soiled, but have neat vignettes of Pinocchio jumping through the air. Poor, covers worn & soiled. This particular edition is apparently pretty scarce in any condition.
Paris: HEUVELMANS Bernard, PORCHNEV Boris, 1974. Soft cover. Apparently the first softbound printing. Pictorial wraps. 506pp. Illust. Text all in French. The two scientist's book on the Minnesota Iceman. A fair copy only because a piece has been torn off the top of the back cover, about 3" & arcing.....
La Crescenta: Mountain N 'Air Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 225pp. Illus. Map of "Routes of 1954 and 1960 Expeditions" to Mount Everest. Outstanding memoir of a fine biologist / naturalist /explorer. Of Yeti interest. Vg.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardbound. 354pp. Signed by Coburn. "Dramatic, moving, and exquisitely written, (this book) explores the tender bond between fathers and daughters, ponders the delicate nature of healing, and celebrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and love." A Redbook Red-Hot Summer Read." Fine, like.....
NY: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Oblong cloth & boards. 220pp. Illus. An essential work for collectors of any of these writers. Fine, as new in dj.
New York & Lincoln: Privately Printed & Nebraska State Hist. Soc. 1932. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 72pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & maps. Printed three columns to a page, a very attractively published book loaded with information on the Indian Wars and the North brothers.....
San Francisco: North Point, 1984. Hardcover. Later printing. Cloth & bds. 441pp. Hardbound edition of the modern, fascinating study of the subject. Fine in dj.
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.