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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition decorated American trade binding with beige, green and light blue image on cover (railroad tracks, utility lines, industry in background). Front board is clean with unworn gold lettering; spine had gold lettering, with some fading to cloth; rear board has light soiling. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Lovely old custom bookplate on front pastedown. Interior water stain along hinges of endpapers, a few page edges. Two-page frontispiece illustration of three men examining a great long map rolled out on the floor. 332 pages. A novel about the laying out of early railroad lines..

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1969. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1969. Facsimile edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1916 by McGraw-Hill, this edition was republished in 1969 by Kalmbach Publishing Company, with a special Introduction by George W. Hilton. Dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean. Clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. fold-out diagrams showing layout of important terminals throughout the U.S. 410 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, has two short closed edge tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Includes 25 track diagrams, 31 station floor plans, 163 photos, and an index. An outstanding contribution to railroad literature..

Garden City: Garden City Books, 1951. Book. Illus. by David Lyle Millard, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Garden City: Garden City Books, 1951. Very Good+/Very Good. David Lyle Millard, Illustrator. Very clean decorative (brown & white cross-hatch pattern) boards with black cloth spine, orange lettering on spine. Very little wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. No names, writing or marks--pages are clean. Illustrated endpapers (train crossing a trestle). Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has thumb-nail size chip at rear panel near bottom of spine corner, minor edgewear. Enclosed in new mylar cover. 8vo. Children's..

New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean gray boards with blue spine, white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps. 298 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: Random House, 1945. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing.. New York: Random House, 1945. Third printing. Fine/Very Good. Third printing hardcover book in original dust jacket. Very clean toast brown cloth boards with blue and black map-decorated title box on cover, black title box with silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Illustrated with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Photo-illustrated double page title page. Illustrated with 32 pages of photographs, maps. 465 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has slight age-toning, edge nicks and closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..