New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. Slim quarto (26cm); light green pictorial cloth, stamped in black, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; [46]pp. Boards and dustwrapper dampstained/wrinkled, rubbed about extremities; short tears to dustwrapper upper edges; moderate soiling and toning; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock has mild handling wear..... More

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..... More

Cleveland: Britton Printing Company, 1914. First Edition. Complete run for the year 1914 of a monthly published by the Brotherhood. Articles include Arthur Brisbane's "Female Labor and Minimum Wage"; Knud Benson's "The Panama Railroad"; R.H. Newcomb's "American Railroad Company, Porto Rico"; and countless articles on safety and child labor. Poetry..... 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

[Philadelphia: Joseph V. Baker Associates], 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's orange pictorial staplebound wrappers; 16pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of toning, else Fine. Rail travel magazine published by the first black-owned public relations firm Joseph V. Baker Associates, this issue primarily devoted to New York and the World's Fair..... More

New York: The World, 1879. First Edition. History of the Seventh (New York) Regiment's involvement during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, a conflict lasting 45 days before being put down by local and state militias. Octavo (18.25cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on..... More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Thus. Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 760. Large octavo (26.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket, black paper-covered slipcase with yellow printed wrap-around label; 90pp.; 8 color plates. Jacket spine rather toned, verly small pieces of..... More

Pottsville, PA: Order of Railway Conductors, 1910. Initiation certificate to ORC member William A. Nye of the Pottsville Division No. 416, P&R Ry. (Philadelphia & Reading Railway), Caboose No. 90073, dated July 10, 1910. The head of the certificate shows a lovely red engine steaming past a grassy field, over..... More

[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..... More

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Attractive copy of Saxton's second book, which "has as its background the city of Chicago and the yards of one of the midcontinent railroads from the year 1912 to the outbreak of World War II. The rather complex web of lives and events..... More

London: Ward and Lock, n.d., ca. 1870s. First Edition. Diverse collection of anecdotes, advice, and jokes for the railroad passenger, covering such topics as the correct way of eating olives ("it being /comme il faut/ to use the fingers for that purpose," (p. 27)); and the statistics of bachelorism ("Bachelors..... More

New Bedford: Charles Taber & Co., 1853. First Edition. Sermon preached by the abolitionist Unitarian minister on the correlation between human folly and disasters, arguing that "Nature's revenge has been in direct ratio to man's recklessness" (p. 13). In this particular instance, Weiss was referring to two recent fatal railway..... More

Chicago: National Sound Money League, 1898. First Edition. Address originally delivered by Robinson, editor of the "Railway Age," at the National Currency Convention in Omaha. The Populist NSML was formed two years prior with the aim to continue "the efforts made during [William Jennings Bryan's] presidential campaign of 1896 for..... More