Search Results: Railroad from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

N.p.: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1863. Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers. 38pp. Very good. Front wrapper age toned and slightly soiled. Details of a Senate act to aid in the construction of this railroad line between Boston and Halifax.

Hanover: J.E. Hood, 1843. Paperback. Small 4to. Tan printed wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Mild bit of age toning and slight foxing. First edition -- tight, clean -- of this address in which this academic argues eloquently on behalf of a proposed railroad line running from Concord, New Hampshire's capitol city, to the Connecticut River. Haddock (1796-1861) was a long-time professor of rhetoric, intellectual philosophy and civil policy at Dartmouth College, also serving (1850-54) as charge d'affaires of the United States at Portugal; he authored a number of pamphlets on a variety of educational and civic issues. Interestingly and appropriately, this copy bears the bold ownership signature at top of front wrapper of Onslow Stearns (1810-78), New Hampshire's 40th governor, a two-term Republican. Stearns is mainly remembered as a railroad builder and executive, having served as president of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad and also of the Concord & Old Colony Railroad. SABIN 29494 note.

Hanover: J.E. Hood, 1843. Paperback. Small 4to. Tan printed wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Mild bit of age toning and slight foxing. First edition -- tight, clean -- of this address in which this academic argues eloquently on behalf of a proposed railroad line running from Concord, New Hampshire's capitol city, to the Connecticut River. Haddock (1796-1861) was a long-time professor of rhetoric, intellectual philosophy and civil policy at Dartmouth College, also serving (1850-54) as charge d'affaires of the United States at Portugal; he authored a number of pamphlets on a variety of educational and civic issues. SABIN 29494 note.

Washington, DC: Association of American Railroads, n.y.. Paperback. Small 4to. Color wrappers. 16pp. Numerous color illustrations. Good plus. Moderately and evenly age toned, as usual; a bit delicate -- also as usual -- with a couple small edge chips. First and presumably only edition of this comic book-style "Life of Lincoln," undated but likely 1959 -- naturally with a bit of emphasis on his railroad usage, given the publisher! Cartoonist Bunce created a number of railroad theme comics for this organization throughout the 1950s. Rather uncommon and, given the acidic nature of the newsprint stock, exceedingly difficult to find in choice collector's condition.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xi, 235pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Second printing, tight and attractive.

Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1998. Hardcover. 4to. Full red leatherette with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this exhaustively-illustrated compendium.

N.p.: N.p. [Joint Committee on Railroads and Canals], 1848. Paperback. Small 4to. Original green printed wrappers. 38pp. Very good. Slightest of wear to outer wrappers (only), though internally fine and bright. The Boston and Lowell Railroad feared "nothing short of the ruin of the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation" because of a loophole that allowed competitors to intersect their lines at will, without having to prove "public convenience -- this is their detailed, technical objection. Exceptionally attractive copy. First edition. Not in Sabin.

Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1845. Paperback. 8vo. Orange wrappers. 31pp. Very good. Mild edgewear to wrappers. First edition, tight and nice. Lengthy and persuasive speech against a petition requesting incorporation of a new railroad line to run between Lowell and Andover, Massachusetts. Not in Sabin, but neither are most of this prolific pontificator's post-1840 public pronouncements.

Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 304pp. Frontispiece, map endpapers, illustrations, maps. Near fine/near fine. Superb, tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the 1939 first edition, called by Archer Jones "A scholarly study of a strategic railroad in the war, with considerable attention to affairs in West Virginia." NEVINS I, 15.

Marathon, FL: Pigeon Key Foundation, Inc, 1998. Paperback. Edited by Dan Gallagher. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. viii, 112pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faintest wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine; scribbled out ownership name on inside front wrapper. Tight and nice first edition of this personal account of an extraordinary engineering feat that extended a railway 128 miles beyond the end of the Florida Keys, penned by the daughter (1896-2002) of Clarence Stanley Coe (1865-1939), the railroad civil engineer and bridge builder who accomplished this marvel. She signs the title page boldly in full in black ballpoint. A title rarely found signed.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth. xvi, 134pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. Later (8th) printing, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings of any kind.

N.p.: Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, n.y. [1850s]. Handbill. Small 8vo (7 3/4" X 5¼"). Near fine. Very slight age toning. Handsome printed "Certificate of Stock" for shares in this Midwest locomotive concern, with standard boilerplate text, with blanks (none filled in) for shareholder's name, number of shares, amount paid, date, etc., as well as blank areas for the usual secretary and president's signatures. Some elaborate borders and elaborate typefaces. Altogether an attractive and evocative item of railroad ephemera.

N.p. [Chicago]: Chicago & North-Western Railway, 1882. Broadside. 14½" X 9". Very good. Bit of sporadic soiling, but overall remarkably clean and attractive -- given it's printed on a thin tissue paper, a rare survivor. Timetable "No. 4," which "Takes Effect Sunday, May 7th, 1882, at 12 o'clock Noon" and is meant "For the Government and Information of Employes only," containing two columns (headed "Trains Going West" and "Trains Going East") showing all stops for both freight and passenger trains between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin. Signed in large type at the bottom by J.D. Layng as General Superintendent, C.A. Swineford as Superintendent and Wm. F. Fitch as Assistant Superintendent. Rare to find in ANY condition, given its inherent fragility, much less this attractive condition. Newly and archivally framed under UV-filtering glass with a single archival cream matte and 3/4" thick dark wood and antiqued gold… Read More

Minneapolis: Soo Line Railroad Company, 1982. Soo Line Railroad was the U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, formed in 1961 as the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and undergoing a number of consolidations and changes in name and ownership into the 1980s and '90s; its lines operated mainly in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. Grouping of half a dozen items: 1.) Soo Liner -- The "Intermodal" Concept: Very much a part of Soo's future. 4to. Glossy wrappers. 15pp. Numerous illustrations, heavy stock centerfold "Santa Rides the Soo" map of the Soo Line. Near fine. Company magazine. 2.) News to Know: A Soo Liner Supplement. Small 4to. Self-cover. (4pp). Map. Fine. Newsletter. 3.) Soo Milwaukee System: Train Planning and Tonnage Profiles. Wide 64mo. Stiff red wrappers. (8pp). Two foldouts. Very good. 4.) 1983: Your Rail Gateway to America. Heavy stock 10½" X 8". Yearly calendar with "Dates of Holidays for Soo… Read More

Berkeley: Howell-North, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey decorative cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 123pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Second printing of the revised edition of this 1954 text, clean and tight and nice.

Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 288pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers, sewn-in red silk page marker. Fine. Handsome, tight facsimile reprint of the J.W. Daughaday (Philadelphia) 1863 first edition. Part of the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. James I. Robertson Jr. calls it "The starting point for any study of the 'Great Locomotive Chase,' though Pittenger's statements at times are suspect." NEVINS I, 146.

New England railroad firm. Printed DS, 1p, 3 4/4" X 2½", Troy, NY, 1864 January 1. Near fine. Clean and attractive, on pale blue stock. "Extended First Mortgage" receipt, indicating this firm will pay $35.00 to the bearer of Bond No. 131. Signed in ink by the company treasurer, one G.M. Selden. His signature as been cancelled with ink slashes and cancellation slashes. Interesting piece of Civil War railroad ephemera.

New York: Angus Sinclaur Co, 1912. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, gilt spine. 157pp. Numerous illustrations and line drawings. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgwear and faint discoloration at upper right of front board; front pastedown abrasions from bookplate removal; faint hint of dampstaining at upper page edges. Tight and nice first edition of this in-depth account. Rather scarce.

[London]: Octopus, 1982. Hardcover. 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. 80pp. Numerous color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Attractive first edition.

Chicago: Central Electric Railfans Association, 1975. Paperback. 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 35pp. Illustrations line drawings, maps, charts. Very good. Tight, nice enlarged edition of this 1949 study of the Gary, Indiana street railway and interurban system, being Bulletin #84 of this association.