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

[Edison, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1996]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher' paper-covered boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 118,[10]pp.; chiefly color photographs throughout. Boards a bit bumped at corners and spine ends, light edge wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of color photographs taken in the..... More

Kalamazoo: The Horton-Beimer Press, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); dark blue cloth, stamped in orange; 158pp. Boards soiled, with mild rubbing, light wear to extremities. Slight toning to interior margins, but otherwise clean, unmarked. Very Good or Better, quite rare. Judging by the chief concern of this self-published poetry book, one..... 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

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

New York: Macmillan Company, 1899. First Edition. One of two novels produced by the Merwin-Webster collaboration, this on the railway industry which had a notable effect on Frank Norris's own novel "The Octopus," published two years later. WRIGHT III 3708. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in red, yellow..... 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