New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original green pictorial cloth embossed in dark green, brown glazed endpapers; 319pp. Minor external soil and rubbing; Very Good or better. Blanck notes two states of the text, one with the statement "The End" following text, the other without, but..... 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

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

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

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

Chicago: By the Company, 1888. A broadside missive by Charles Elliott Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, issued at the conclusion of the momentous 1888 Burlington Strike, one of the bloodiest labor actions up to the time and one which set a pattern for the strike-breaking industry..... 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