Railway Workers from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Moskau [i.e., Moscow]: Verlagsgenossenschaft Auslandischer Arbeiter in der USSR, 1934. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 158,(2)pp. Front cover stained at upper margin, else a tight, Very Good copy, with text fresh and unmarked. No. 12 in the series "Aus der Werkstatt der Revolution." Text entirely in German. Concerns the strike of railway workers in Rostov-am-Don in 1902, considered… Read more about this item

Boston: Richard C. Badger, (1920). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 288pp; illus; map endpapers. A sound and attractive, if moderately aged, copy, free of markings or excessive wear. Spine slightly sunned, with titles dulled; small nick to cloth on rear board; Very Good. An early 20th-c. history of the Santa Fe Railroad.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original green pictorial cloth embossed in dark green, brown glazed endpapers; 319pp. Minor external soil and rubbing; Very Good or better. Blanck notes two states of the text, one with the statement "The End" following text, the other without, but asserts no priority. Ours is the former. An early… Read more about this item

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],352pp. A few pinpoint rubs to spine ends, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), with a shallow loss to crown, a few small nicks and closed tears. Attractive copy of Saxton's… Read more about this item

London: Ward and Lock, n.d., ca. 1870s. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 160pp.; illus., text in double columns. Title page (serving as upper cover) slightly chipped, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking original wrappers. Diverse collection of anecdotes, advice, and jokes for the railroad passenger, covering such topics as the correct way of eating… Read more about this item

[Washington?], 1852. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); disbound; 59pp.; large folding map bound in rear. Map a bit creased from mis-folds, one panel (serving as rear wrapper) toned, else a Very Good, fresh copy. At head of title: 32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 49. Results of a survey conducted in 1850 and 1851 led by Captain Joshua… Read more about this item

Norwich, CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm); contemporary tan calf; red and dark brown morocco spine labels; all edges marbled; xxxvi, 715pp, frontispiece. Amateur repairs to backstrip and textblock preliminaries. Original leather shows some scratches, abrasions and wear; extremities rubbed with material loss. Minor soiling and foxing throughout textblock; over 350 b/w text-illustrations… Read more about this item

N.p.: Travelers Insurance Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 71pp.; insert order blank bound in. Extremities a bit rubbed, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates three copies as of November, 2019, at Cornell, Georgia State, and Appalachian State.

Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt, [1991]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. Exhibition catalog of the German-American artist's train paintings and sketches. Text entirely in German. Compliment card from the American gallery Achim Moeller Fine Art, in which this show was… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company, 1943. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm.); publisher's drab printed staplebound card wrappers; 36pp. Card wrappers rather rubbed along extremities, wrappers and textblock rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound.

[Pittsburgh?]: Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company, 1946. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's cloth tape-backed stiff card wrappers; iv,3-61pp. Faint vertical crease to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Agreement effective as of October 15, 1946, covering passenger service, freight service, yard service, hostler helper service, and other particulars of employment with the Company.

Hollidaysburg, PA: L.G. Plank, 1940. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's maroon staplebound card wrappers lettered in black; 97pp. Textblock slightly toned, minor rubbing along spine, else Fine.

Rochester: M.T. Gardner, 1848. 32mo (12cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 192pp.; woodcut frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, small chip at spine foot, textblock uniformly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The adventures of Sammy, who reads "Two Years Before the Mast" and is inspired to embark on a career as a sailor. Originally published in… Read more about this item

New York: League for Industrial Democracy (L.I.D.), 1936. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wraps; 38pp. Toning and light soil to covers; internally fine. A proposal for public ownership of the railroad utilities.

Chicago: National Sound Money League, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); disbound; 14pp. Previously removed from sammelband with remnants of spine and rear free endpaper still present, some chipping and short closed tears to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good and sound. Published as "National Sound Money League Pamphlet L." Address originally delivered by Robinson, editor of the "Railway Age," at… Read more about this item

Pottsville, PA: Order of Railway Conductors, 1910. Original lithograph certificate (57.75x35.75cm.) printed in black on heavy cream stock, accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored, with mounted original albumen photographic portrait lozenge (8cm in diameter). Stock has suffered some fairly heavy frame burn to extremities and verso (blank), along with some brief glue residue and paper flaws from where the… Read more about this item

Scranton: [Samuel C. Logan], 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original decorative tan cloth embossed in gilt, floral endpapers; viii,355pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece inscribed and signed in facsimile, 9 leaves of photographic illustrations, maps in text. Very slightly ex-Lacka. Historical Society with their ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaf and tiny paper remnent at spine foot, some wear to extremities with… Read more about this item

Moscow: Central Committeeof the U.S.S.R. Railwaymen's Union, 1928. First American Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 96pp; illus. Text rather darkened, with a bit of brittleness at margins; still a tight, complete copy, Good or better.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, [1922]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket printed in dark blue; 332pp. Jacket toned, extremities rather chipped and worn with a number of closed tears, spine crown partially separated but present. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Criticism of the railroad companies by the Socialist co-founded of the… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Edition. Thick octavo (22cm.); original cloth in decorative dust jacket; xviii,398pp.; 8 leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine toned with a couple of faint blue pencil lines, tiny loss to spine foot, 1-inch closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel; still, Fine in… Read more about this item