[Washington?]: 1852. First Edition. Results of a survey conducted in 1850 and 1851 led by Captain Joshua Barney of the United States Topographical Corps of Engineers for a rail line running from St. Louis to a point on the Arkansas River near Little Rock. The result was the Mississippi, Ouachita..... More

Buenos Aires: Casa Social Victoria 1928-38, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 575pp. Text paper browned but not fragile; still a clean, tight VG copy, remarkably well-preserved given the cheap components of manufacture. Jubilee Anniversary volume for the Argentinian Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Illustrated..... More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; viii,[2],3-312pp. Spine ends lightly nudged; diagonal crease to rear endpaper, causing similar effect to pp.307-312; Very Good+. Dustwrapper..... More

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..... More

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. More

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..... More

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. More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More