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TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY STRATEGY 1869-1893: a study of businessmen
Edition: First Edition
Philadelpha: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Octavo, red cloth. pp (xxiv), 443. Light tan spot to lower page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and small chip at head of spine, light soiling, short tear to rear panel, VG otherwise. Uncommon book. US railways. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 36764More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
TRANSIT IN TORONTO: the story of the development of public transportation in Toronto, from horse cars to a modern, high speed subway system
Edition: First printing
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC_, 1967. Octavo, pp 65, [3]. Photos. Centre spread colour map. Some red ink notations to two pages at rear, else fine. Covers years 1849-1967. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43514More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
TROLLEY TALK Volume VI
Wyoming, OH: Trolley Talk, 1980. Quarto, card covers. VG. Reprints issues 191-120, Feb. 1974 - April 1977. Aimed at the railway modeller.
Book ID: 43541More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
TTC '28: the electric railway services of the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1928
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Upper Canada Railway Society, 1968. 47 pp, stapled, in card covers. Photos, maps, charts. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Quarto
Book ID: 52491More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Twentieth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners on the Railroads of the State.
Albany: State of New York, 1903. Very thick octavo, original maroon cloth. pp (c), 577 + photos at front. Large colour folding map laid in at rear (small tears at folds). Index, tables. Spine a little sunned, with gilt lettering dulled; front inner hinge neatly repaired with rice paper, rubber stamp and remains of label at front; VG or better clean, tight and unworn copy of this massive door stopper. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 43474More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS GONE
Edition: First printing
Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust, 1975. Octavo, pp 75, illustrated. Soft crease to upper outer corners, vertical crease to last leaf, VG otherwise. Issued to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the closing of the major portion of the Belfast & County Down Railway. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43556More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
WESTWARD BY RAIL: the new route to the east
Edition: First Edition
New York: Appleton, 1871. Octavo, brown cloth, floral endpapers. pp (2), xiv, 391, (1), (2, ads), (2) + colour frontispiece Light scratches to front cover, very lightly darkened spine has a faint damp stain to lower half, light rubbing to outer corners, else a near fine copy, no owner names, hinges not cracked, quite nice. Much on the Mormons, Utah, Nevada, and California. Flake 6810. Sabin 67430. Paher, Nevada, 1607: "A picturesque book written in the style reminiscent of Mark Twain."
Book ID: 36730More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
WHEELS OF PROGRESS. A Story of the Development of Toronto and its Public Transformation Services.
Toronto Transportation Commission, no date [ca. 1946. 1947?). Fourth edition. Octavo, red card covers. pp 118. Illustrated. A little leaned, spine sunning, VG otherwise. Street railways, TTC.
Book ID: 45460More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
WHEN RAILROADS WERE NEW. With introductory note by Logan G. McPherson
Edition: First Edition
New York: Henry Holt, 1909. Octavo, olive pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. pp xiv, 324, (2), (6, ads), (4) + 16 plates. Lacks tissue guard at frontispiece, cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; else a near fine copy. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Chapter 9 is about the Canadian Pacific Railway; book mostly about American railways. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 36742More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
WORLD ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
Edition: First Edition
London: Jane's, 1981. Quarto, red boards. pp 160. Photos, index. Fine in fine jacket.
Book ID: 43534More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
WORLD LOCOMOTIVE MODELS
Edition: First Edition
Bath, Somerset, England: Adams & Dart, 1973. Squarish quarto, black cloth. pp 168. Over 250 b&w and colour photos of model locomotives from 1804 to early 1960s. Fine copy, no owner names. Jacket has small tear and creases to lower outer corner of front panel, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43431More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
YONDER COMES THE TRAIN; the story of the Iron Horse and some of the roads it travelled
Edition: First Edition
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1965. Folio, yellow boards. pp 395, [5]. Photos of trains and ephemera. Index. Steam trains in America. Fine in jacket. Note: heavy book, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43620More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50