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THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
Edition: First US Edition
South Brunswick, NJ & New York: A.S. Barnes, 1970. Quarto, white boards. pp 147, [9]. Photos, diagrams, tables, index. Fine copy. Jacket has a two inch tear to lower outer corner of front panel and small tears at head of spine, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 43592More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
THE RAILS GO WEST
Edition: First Edition
South Melboure: Macmillan of Australia, 1969. Blue boards, endpaper maps. pp (xiv), (164), [2] + plates. Ink ownership inscription on half-title leaf, else fine. Jacket has a few nicks, light rubbing, VG+ otherwise. A history ot the railroads of Australia written for younger readers.
Book ID: 43601More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE RAILWAY JOURNEYS OF MY CHILDHOOD
Edition: First Edition
London: Pan, 1983. Oblong quarto, maroon cloth gilt, oval pictorial label on front cover. pp 112. Colour reproductions of watercolours of Edwardian train travel. Cover label creased, with a short tear; faint sticker shadow on front free endpaper, VG clean & unworn copy otherwise.;
Book ID: 43501More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
The Railway King: A Biography of George Hudson
London: Headline, 2003. Card covers. pp 274 + plates; index. Ink owner name, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; 12mo 0747232369
Book ID: 48194More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
THE RAILWAY PAINTING OF TERENCE CUNEO
Edition: First printing
London: New Cavendish Books, 1984. Quarto, green boards. pp 128. Reproductions in colour and b&w. Private owner rubber stamps and evidence of tape removal inside covers, else fine in fine jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43630More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
The Railways of Canada for 1870-1, Shewing the Progress, Mileage, Cost of Construction, the Stocks, Bonds, Traffic, Earnings, Expenses, and Organization of the Railways of the Dominion.
Toronto: Coles, 1974. Octavo, grey card covers. pp 175 + many ads front and rear. Minor spine rubbing, corner creases to one leaf, else fine, no names. Facsimile reprint of the Toronto, 1871, edition.
Book ID: 43453More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
THE ROAD TO PARADISE: the story of the rebirth of the Strasburg Rail Road
Lancaster, PA: Strasburg Rail Road Shop, 1983. Quarto, pp (40), stapled in glossy card covers. Many photos. VG+.
Book ID: 43470More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THE ROAD TO THE SEA
Montreal: Canadian Railroad Historical Association, 1965. Second edition, revised. pp 18, stapled, in paper covers. Ink name, small hole, and small spots on front cover, VG otherwise. Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad between Montreal and Portland, Maine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43468More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THE RUTLAND ROAD
Edition: First printing
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964. Large quarto, lime green cloth, photographic endpapers. pp (12), 368. Colour frontispiece and one other colour plate, 423 b&w photos, 16 maps, charts, timetables, ads, index. Tape stains to upper and lower margins of free endpapers, else fine. Dust jacket softly creased lower front panel, near fine otherwise. History of this Vermont and Northern New York railway. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43602More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
THE SEARCH FOR SAFETY: a history of railroad signals and the people who make them
Edition: First Edition
No place (Pittsburgh, PA): American Standard, Inc, 1981. Square octavo, brown boards. pp (8), 199. Many photos and reproductions in text. Tidy ink owner name at front; slight rubbing to spine ends and outer corners; small skinned spot in corner of title page; VG otherwise. Dust jacket has some chips and short tears; good. Commissioned by Union Switch & Signal Division, American Standard, Inc. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 41128More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY
Edition: First Edition
London: Ian Allan, no date (1961). Octavo, brown cloth. pp 198, [2] + colour frontispiece and many b&w plates. Index. A fine, jacketless copy.
Book ID: 43447More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY AND THE S.E. & C..R
Edition: First Edition
South Godstone, Surrey: Oakwood Press, 1953. Octavo, pp 52 + plates. Maps in text. Cloth and printed boards. Soft bruise to upper outer corners of coves and text, VG clean copy otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43560More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Edition: First Edition
South Godstone, Surrey: Oakwood Press, 1958. Octavo, pp 52 + plates. Map in text. Cloth and printed boards. Mild wear to upper outer corner of boards, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43558More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
The Southern Railway System: An Illustrated History
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1986. Quarto, blue boards, endpaper maps. pp (160), numerous photos. A history of this great rail system, the first to carry US Mail, from its humble beginnings in 1827 until its merger with the Norfolk & Western in 1982. Small sticker shadow on rear cover, else a fine, jacketless copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0919783198
Book ID: 43616More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE STEAM AGE IN WESTERN ONTARIO: A railroad anthology. Personal reminiscences and accounts of locomotives and trains in a concentrated network of rail lines, along with their history and other pertinent technical data.
Edition: First Edition
London, ON: F.J. Ram, 1975. Large quarto, blue cloth. pp (14), (x), (126) + folding map at rear. Photos, tables, ephemera. Large new bookstore ticket at front; map has a streak of a felt tip pen to the right hand panel for some reason; near fine otherwise. Dust jacket has nicks and short creased tear along top edge, VG otherwise. This book is "the first ime any composite record of actual railroading in the peninsula between Lakes Huron and Ontario has been produced....The city of London was the focal point and at one time more trains entered and left the Forest City than any other city in Canada." Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43603More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 43486More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE TIME OF THE TROLLEY
Edition: First Edition
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1967. Large quarto, cloth & boards. pp 435. Photos, list of makers, index. Fine copy. Jacket is chipped, torn, taped, just good. History of electric street cars in North America. Note: heavy book, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 43623More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
THE TRAIL OF THE SWINGING LANTERNS: a racy, railroading review of transportation matters, methods and men
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Author, 1918. Square octavo, green cloth lettered in orange. pp (2), 149 (including 4 pp ads). Portraits in text. Folding sheet of press reviews laid in. VG copy. Focuses on on railroad men in Canada and the United States. Grand Trunk, Toronto & Nippising, Credit Valley, Canadian Northern, and more.
Book ID: 43544More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
TRACKS ON CANVAS: the railway paintings of Philip D. Hawkins
Edition: First Edition
Royston, Herts., England: Heathfield Railway Publications, 2009. Oblong folio, glossy colour pictorial boards. pp 96, index. Black & white photos, over 50 colour reproductions. Covers a bit bowed, else a fine copy in a VG jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43435More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
TRAINS ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL 1961
Edition: First Edition
London: Ian Allan, 1961. Small quarto, white boards. pp 96. Many photos, colour frontispiece. Ink name and date at front, name heavily crossed out in ink, else fine. Dust jacket has short creased tears, rubbing at ends, price-clipped, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 43527More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50