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From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Dundurn, 2004. Red boards. pp 501; photos, notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. Railway tycoon Van Horne was the General Manager and prime mover of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47972More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
GRAND TRUNK HERITAGE: steam in New England
Edition: First edition.
New York: Railroad Heritage Press, 1978. Oblong quarto, glossy card covers. pp 48. Many photos. Creases at head of spine, ink owner name on title page, map pasted in at front and rear, crease to upper outer corner throughout, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43504More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. Maintenance of Way Department. Report of Annual Inspection October-November 1914
No place (Montreal ?): Grand Trunk Railway, (1914?). Oblong format, 8 x 11 inches, green cloth backstrip and grey card covers. pp 41. VG clean and unworn copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43439More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. Maintenance of Way Department. Report of Annual Inspection October-November 1915
No place (Montreal ?): Grand Trunk Railway, (1915?). Oblong format, 8 x 11 inches, green cloth backstrip and grey card covers. pp 41, [3]. VG clean and unworn copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43440More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
GREAT NORTHERN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. Volume One: 1846-1881.
Edition: First Edition
London: Allen & Unwin, 1966. Green boards. 252, (4) pp + plates. Creases to lower inner corner of early leaves, else fine in VG jacket
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 2287More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
GWR LOCOMOTIVE ALLOCATIONS. First and Last Sheds 1922-1967.
Newton Abbot (England): David & Charles, 1986. Gossy pictorial boards. 176 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 18484More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HAMILTON'S OTHER RAILWAY 1853-2000. The Hamilton and North Western Railway in retrospect
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Bytown Railway Society, 2001. Tall quarto, blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp (10), 419. Index, extensive bibliography, many photos. Fine in jacket. A Memoir of the H&NW Railway including its Lake Erie Division, the former Hamilton and lake Erie Railway. This book retraces its pioneering beginnings, subsequent merger with the Northern Railway of Canada, absorption by the Grand Trunk Railway and its survival into the days of the CNR. Ontario railway history. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43495More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
HO 78/79: Internationaler Modell-Eisenbahn-Katalog International Model Railways Guide Guide international des chemins de fer de modèle réduit
Esslingen, Germany: Symposion, 1978. Large quarto, colour glossy boards without jacket, as issued. 390 pp. More than 4000 models in colour. Fine copy. Text in German, English and French. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43488More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HORSECARS, CABLE CARS AND OMNIBUSES: all 107 photographs from the John Stephenson Company Album, 1888
Edition: First printing
New York: Dover, 1974. Oblong format, card covers. Corner creases to covers, VG+ otherwise. Reproductions of photos of these vehicles that the company prepared for the Smithsonian in 1888.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43430More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ILLUSTRATED TREASURY OF PULLMAN STANDARD RAILWAY PASSENGER CARDS-SINCE 1945. Volume II
Edition: First Edition
Montreal & Alburg, VT: Delta Publications, 1981. Quarto, pp (272). Photos on every page. VG copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43478More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ILLUSTRATED TREASURY OF RAIL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMS AND CARS OF NORTH AMERICA
Alburg, VT and Montreal: DPA-LTA Enterprises, 1983. Large quarto, plain white textured boards. pp 260. Photos, diagrams, Light cover soiling; ink gift inscription and sticker stain at front; soft crease to first two leaves; text a little rippled but no damp marks evident; else a VG jacketless copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43543More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS: The Story of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway / 2
Toronto: Preston House, 1996. Second edition, enlarged. Maroon cloth. pp 314, (6, index). Many photos. Presentation label at front, else fine in fine jacket. 2 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50458More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
IRELAND: Gem of the Sea. Touring for health and pleasure on the Great Southern Railways. Guide to Dublin & Wicklow Section (cover title)
Dublin: Great Southern Railways, no date. 1920's or 30s ? 24.5 x 14 cm, original cream pictorial card covers printed in brown, stapled. pp (36), (4, ads) + 3 leaves of double-sided photos printed in brown + folding map at rear. Text illustrations in green. Nicks, small corner chips, short tears, soft creases, slight soiling, to covers. Light damp stain to lower front cover and first few leaves, rubber stamp of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Toronto, on rear cover. Good copy otherwise of this rail tourist brochure. Photo of O'Connell Bridge and Street, Dublin, on front cover. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43557More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
IRON ROADS: railways of Nova Scotia
Edition: First Edition
Windsor, NS: Lancelot Press, 1972. pp 76, [4]. Card covers. Photos by the author. Signed by the author. Short crease to top margin of early leaves, else a VG clean copy.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 43520More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
KINSEY PHOTOGRAPHER: A half century of negatives by Darius and Tabitha May Kinsey. Volume three. The locomotive portraits
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, c1984. Second printing. Oblong folio, brown boards, endpaper maps of Northwest Washington. pp 144. Remainder stripe on bottom page edges, else fine in fine jacket. 41 photos of the logging industry's steam locomotives, with historical essays on each locomotive by John Labbe. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43487More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
LIFE ON A LOCOMOTIVE: the story of Buddy Williams, C.& NW Engineer
Edition: First edition
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1971. Pale green cloth. pp 219, [5] + photo plates. Red ink ownership at front, else fine in moderately worn, VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43473More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
LIFE ON THE HEAD END
Edition: First printing
New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Octavo, light blue cloth. pp 192. Light yellowing to endpapers and page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has external and internal tape repairs, wear to folds, just good. Canadian author's memoirs of his life in Canadian railroading in the days of steam. Scarce vanity press publication.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43547More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
LINK WITH A LONELY LAND: the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway
Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1985. Black boards, endpaper photos. pp (203). Many photos, bibliography. Ink name at front, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45224More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
LOCO 1 - THE DIESEL
Edition: First Edition
Ramsey, NJ: Model Craftsman Publishing Company, 1966. Oblong quarto, green cloth. pp 144. Well illustrated with photos and diagrams. A fine, jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43482More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
LOCOMOTIVE 4501
Edition: First Edition
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1968. Oblong quarto, green cloth. pp 127. Photos, index. Former owner's blind stamp on title leaf, else a fine, jacketless copy. The story of Southern Railway's 2-8-2 locomotive, built By Baldwin in 1911.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43591More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50