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
[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
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: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1934. Quarto. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp1-80; illus. Mild wear to covers; binding crease to second half of text; small de-accession stamp (Mooney Papers, Bancroft Library); Very Good. Official monthly organ of the B of LE. Includes articles on railroad lore, technical matters..... More
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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
![History of a Ring [cover title]. "BY ONE OF THE GOVERNOR'S WARDS"](/pictures/medium/27256.jpg?v=1529353534)
Portland, ME: Berry Printer, 1877. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial stitched self-wrappers; 13pp. Wrappers rather brittle with a few tiny shallow losses, else Very Goood. Satirical fable regarding the railroad industry. WILLIAMSON (Maine) I 835. 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
Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt" [1991]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. Exhibition catalog of the German-American artist's train paintings and sketches. Text entirely in German. Compliment card from the American gallery..... 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
Cleveland: Cleveland Printing Co., Imperial Press, 1907. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; [6],412pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards rubbed along extremities, mostly at corners, front hinge cracked but holding, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good overall. Second published collection of labor song-poems by the Irish-born..... 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
![Then and Now: On the 100th Anniversary of the First General Strike in the U.S. [cover title]....](/pictures/medium/26401.jpg?v=1529353495)
Detroit: News & Letters Publication, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original tan pictorial staplebound wrappers; 50pp.; illus. Fine. "A News & Letters Pamphlet." History of the St. Louis General Strike of 1877. 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
![The Emperor Jones [Limited Edition, Signed]. Eugene O'NEILL, Alexander King](/pictures/medium/23634.jpg?v=1529353400)
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
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
Reading, PA: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1910. Initiation certificate to BRT member William Walter Spatz of the William Penn, 172, in Reading, PA. The head of the certificate shows an engine steaming past a grassy field (the engine only partly hand-colored red), over which is mounted Spatz's photographic portrait. Original..... 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 & 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
[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
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: 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
![The Short Line War [Inscribed and Signed by Merwin]. RAILROAD FICTION, pseud. Samuel Merwin,...](/pictures/medium/46027.jpg?v=1571090345)
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
Buffalo: Railroad Trainmasters of North America, n.d. Quarto bifolium. Opens to printed broadside, 11" x 17". Printed in black and orange ink; text in four columns. Original folds, else fine. Wartime polemic from the editor of the Railroad Workers' Journal, arguing that the closed shop is tantamount to the "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
