Visions & Visionaries by D'Emilio Sandra and Suzan Campbell - 1991: The Art & Artists of the Santa Fe Railway

Peregrine Smith Books, 1991. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1991. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Gibbs Smith, Publisher. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 1991. CY4 - A first edition ex-library hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling and crease on some edges and corners, inside flaps adhered to the fixed endpapers, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), some writing on the bottom page edges, some scattered stains and smudge, lightly loose hinge, light discoloration and shelfw ear. Foreword by Paul Benisek. 11.25"x8.75", 147 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Gibbs Smith, 0000-00-00. 1. hardcover. Used: Good.

Gibbs Smith, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. Price-clipped. .

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith. Very Good +. 1991. 0879053836 4to, 147 pp, VG+ in somewhat shelfworn pictorial dust jacket. Approximately 90 full-page color plates with descriptive captions + numerous b&w text illustrations. Wonderful history of the paintings commissioned and acquired by the Santa Fe Railway for calendars, prints, dining cars & hotel lobbies. Includes a bibliography. First edition. .

Very Good. Hardback in dust jacket. 4to., xi, 146 pages., with 50 photographs and 80 full color plates reproducing the paintings that created the Southwest mystique. Unused x-library with one stamp, no pocket, etc. Remnents of dj protector on paste-downs. (B)

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine in Good Dust Jacket. 4to, 147 pp., color plates throughout, b/w illus. Previous owner's blindstamp and note of date and place, otherwise unmarked. Jacket a bit handled, edgeworn, with one tear tape-repaired at interior.

Milwaukee, WI: Wm. K. Walthers, Inc.. Near Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0941952533 . Small bump on front edge, a few scratches on rear board, not deep enough to go through the color ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 21808 .

Silver Spring, Maryland: Old Line Graphics. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket has some very minor wear [creasing] to base of spine & is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Endpaper maps. Uncommon. 128 pages The contents include Freight Routes and Schedules; The East and Tide Subdivisions, The Hanover and York Subdivisions; The Lurgan Subdivision; Hagerstown and The West Subdivision; Cumberland and The Connellsville Subdivision; Cumberland and The Thomas Subdivision; and The Durbin and GC&E Subdivisions,. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Publishers of the Railway Engineer. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name on front free . endpaper, usual library stamps, waterstain at top inner joint of first . thirty pages.. 1909. Hardcover. The Railway Series of Text Books and Manuals by Railway Men for Railway Men and Others, No. 5. Green beveled boards with titles stamped in black on front boards and in gilt on spine. Many photos and illustrations of railway equipment plus several pages of illustrated advertisements at front and rear. Measures 30 x 24 cm. "This volume deals with what may be called the structure which has been raised on the foundations laid by the pioneers of the art of Power Signalling for railways, and among whom should be mentioned Cooke and Whetstone who introduced the speaking telegraph; Edward Tyer, who enabled single lines to be controlled by electricity, thus greatly increasing their carrying capacity with safety; W. R. Sykes, whose "lock-and-block" is used all over the… Read More

STREET RAILWAY ROADBED. Street Railway Publishing Company, New York. First Edition, 1898. 135 pages indexed. Authors: Mason D. Pratt and C.A. Alden. ILLUSTRATED with drawings, diagrams, tables. Former owner name and date of 1903 on front floral end-paper. RARE. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IF ISSUED. A nice copy. Please see our photos.

1976 Random House First Edition. Pop-Up Book #31. RARE! PAPER ENGINEERING BY IB PENICK. All pop-ups and sliders in working order. Used. Unpaginated. 6 3/4 X 9 1/4. Very Good condition. Quite the find! Please see our photos.

London: Heinemann. 1959. Octavo Size. Very Good in a Good Dustjacket. Age-toned DJ has some minor edgewear with a very small piece missing to top edge near spine - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. 237 pages. The third novel in Burgess's Malayan Trilogy 'The Long Day Wanes'. The trilogy was a comic fictional exploration of the impact of the Malayan Emergency which started in 1948. Burgess wrote the Malayan trilogy with the ambition to become a fictional expert in Malaya as he spoke and wrote excellent Malay and the trilogy was based on much of his own experience. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Baltimore, Western Maryland Railway Company, 1952, hardcover, xvi-134 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued, Association Copy, Signed and inscribed on the half-title page to Robert B. Murray, Undersecretary of the Department of Commerce for Transportation from 1953-1955 "in appreciation of his outstanding public service" and dated Dec. 17, 1954. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner wear, spine titles worn, a few tiny spots to rear cover. A complete history of the first century of this important transportation system servicing the Eastern seaboard and points further west. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs of historic scenes and vintage locomotives including the Alliance, the Monocacy, and the Conewago.

Cambridge: Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, 1927, 1927. A splendid look at pre-Depression transatlantic travel, this prospectus for two linked August 1927 tours sponsored by the Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, with comments on the benefits of travel and of joining the club, open to present & past Oxford & Cambridge University men. Itinerary of the 'short trip' included New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, a week in Canada's Algonquin Park, Ottawa, & Montreal; the 'long trip' (cost, 102 guineas, nearly $9000 in modern terms) headed west from Niagara, going to Sarnia, then through lakes Huron & Superior to Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Jasper National Park (snow skiing, even in summer, possibility of bears), Prince Rupert, along the coast to Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, then back to Toronto, Ottawa, & Montreal. Includes some comments on the more notable places to be visited, frontispiece reproducing a full-color painting of the RMS Carmania by C. F. Hopkinson;… Read More

Glenwood Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. 0911760237 . Number 898 of 1000 copies, signed by author on half-title page; Book and DJ have very light edgewear, owner's embossed stamp on FFEP, page ends very lightly toning; DJ has light toning to edges, crease along bottom edge; DJ in protective Brodart cover; b/w photos; 187 pages; Signed by Author .

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Historical and Technical Society, Inc., 2007. Very Good+. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover, else Fine. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.