AMORY, CLEVELAND; BEEBE, LUCIUS; CARON, GERALD; ENGLE, PAUL; FISHWICK, MARSHALL; JONES, EVAN; LEVINSON, LEONARD LOUIS; LYNES, RUSSELL; ROBERTSON, ARCHIE; WILLISON, GEORGE F.

The American Heritage Cookbook: An Illustrated History of American Eating & Drinking

NY, American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc. 1964. Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Drawings, Engravings, Photos. Hardcover, Photographed end papers, textblock is clean and tight, chapters by different authors. Light bumping to the head and foot of the spine, fray to the front corner on the spine. Price-clipped dust jacket, several chips and small tears to the edges, chipping at the head and foot of the spine, chipped corners, soiled spine/covers. 629pp. including index. Very Good/Good (in mylar).

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: SB17049

Catalogue: American History/Americana

Keywords: American Cookery History, American Cookbook, American Cooking, American Eating, American drinking, American Food Recipes Culinary Arts Drawings, Engravings, Photos

BEEBE, LUCIUS

20th Century: "the Greatest Train in the World"

Berkeley, CA, Howell-North. 1962, First Edition. Tan Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Photographs; Drawings; End-paper Maps; Howard L. Fogg Jacket Art. Hardcover, Mapped end pages; Former owner's name in ink at the top of ffep; Immaculate and tight textblock; Tan cloth binding, gently bumped corners; Spine-sunned, edge-worn dust jacket with several closed edge tears and spine wear; 180p. including index. Very Good+/Good+ (in mylar).

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 25026

Catalogue: Railroads

Keywords: 20th Century Railroad History, New York Central Railroad, Luxury American Railroads American History/Americana Photographs; Drawings; End-paper Maps; Howard L. Fogg Jacket Art

Beebe, Lucius Morris & Clegg, Charles

The Age of Steam: A Classic Album of American Railroading

New York, Rinehart & Company, [1957]. 1st edition . Hardcover. Oversize 304p. illus. Inscribed by both authors: "For Richard B. Hovey a green light on all the tangents .. Virginia City/1957" . Very good condition/good.

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003028

Keywords: Railroads Autographed Books

BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES

The Age of Steam: A Classic Album of American Railroading

NY, Rinehart & Company Inc. 1957, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Former owner's inked name/date at upper corner of fep, else textblock is clean and tight; b&w photographs. All page edges are straight and sound; Bumped head and foot of spine, minimal shelf wear. Unclipped, very edge worn dust jacket, chipping at the head and foot of the spine, chipped corners, chip at the back top and bottom edges. 304p. Very Good/Good (in mylar).

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: SB17045

Catalogue: Railroads

Keywords: American Railroading History, American Railroading Pictorial History, Railroads Pictorial History, American Railroads, American Trains History, Trains History, Railroads B&W Photographs

BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES

The American West: The Pictorial Epic of a Continent

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of this pictorial guide to the history of the American West. Beginning with trappers and hunters, the growth of the area is documented in over 1000 illustrations in the form of drawings and photos. Also with information about gold and silver mines, manifest destiny, mountain crossings, crime, cowboys, gunfights, railroads, saloons and many other topics. The pictures are accompanied by the text of Mr. Beebe. Includes title page illustration by E. S. Hammack and wild mounted cowboy art to endpapers. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with titling in blind to cover; decorations and titling in black and gilt to spine. Dust jacket repeats the Hammack title page art. --- With minor dampstains at lower gutters near front and rear of volume and water spotting to textblock top edge, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket also in great shape, but with minor rippling due to exposure to dampness; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 511 pages. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Bluebird BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 84578

Keywords: >>American History & Politics >>History of Colorado & the Old West

BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES

The American West: The Pictorial Epic of a Continent

New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Ill.: Black and White Drawings, Engravings and Sketches. Hard Cover, Previous owner's signature on ffep, otherwise textblock and binding very clean and tight; Dust jacket unclipped, lightly edge worn, very clean and bright; 511p. including bibliography; Over 1000 illustrations. Near Fine/Very Good+ (in mylar).

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 25132

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: American West; American History; Hear the Train Blow Black and White Drawings, Engravings and Sketches

BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES

The American West: The Pictorial Epic of a Continent

New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Ill.: Black and White and Colored Photos, and Sketches. Hard Cover, Gift inscription on half title page, otherwise textblock clean and tight; Binding a bit rubbed and worn at extremities; jacket worn and price-clipped; 511 pp. including bibliography. Very Good/Good+ (in mylar).

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: SAS0123

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: American West; American History; Hear the Train Blow Black and White and Colored Photos, and Sketches

Beebe, Lucius Morris

The Big Spenders

New York, Doubleday & Co. 1966. Hardcover. xxiv, 404 p. illus. ports. 24 cm. Very good condition .

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 44258

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Upper Class--United States; Luxury--History; United States--Social Life and Customs--1865-1918 Pullman Company Railroads

Beebe, Lucius,

The Big Spenders.

NY, Doubleday, 1966. VG in Fair DJ. The author's concern has been with worldly and less sanctified expenditures in the field of splendid entertainment,. ostentatious real estate, sea-going yachts, gold table service, garages filled with Rolls-royces, platoons of liveried flunkies, vintage wine in double magnums, galleries of old masters, titled son-in-laws, stables of thoroughbreds, and Cartier-diamond necklace and terrapin-Maryland level. They brushed their teeth in vintage Champagne and their valets polished the soles of their boots in case the master wanted to cross his legs. Gene Fowler wrote money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains. DJ tanned with splits on edges.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS054966I

Catalogue: History

Straßenbahnen; Beebe, Lucius/Clegg, Charles

Cable Car Carnival

Hardy, 1951. Die Entwicklung der Straßenbahn in den USA - Dekorationen von E. S. Hammack Einband: unbekannter Einband. 750

Celler VersandantiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 781zz

Keywords: Eisenbahn

Beebe, Lucius

The Central Pacific & the South Pacific Railroads

Berkeley, Howell-North Books, 1963. Including 121 photographs by Richard Steinheimer. 631p. many b/w and some colored illus. dj, quarto format. .

Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILABProfessional seller

Book number: 042526

Keywords: Railroads Western Americana California

BEEBE, LUCIUS

Comstock Commotion the Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1954. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The edges of the text block - especially the top and bottom edges. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, nicking, several tears and holes and chips missing. "During and immediately after obtaining his degree from Harvard, Beebe published several books of poetry, but eventually found his true calling in journalism. He worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Telegram, and the Boston Evening Transcript, and was a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Holiday, American Heritage, and Playboy. Beebe re-launched Nevada's first newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952. He wrote a syndicated column for the New York Herald Tribune from the 1930s through 1944 called This New York. The column chronicled the doings of fashionable society at such storied restaurants and nightclubs as El Morocco, the 21 Club, the Stork Club, and The Colony. Beebe is credited with popularizing the term "cafe society", which was used to describe the people mentioned in his column. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 38742

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: Californiana Western Americana Lucius Beebe Newspapers News Organizations Virginia City News Territorial Enterprise Californiana

BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES

Hear the Train Blow: A Pictorial Epic of America in the Railroad Age

NY, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1952, First Edition. Illustrated Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Photographs; Drawings and Engravings. Hardcover, Illustrated end pages; Signed by authors on ffep; Textblock very clean and tight; Lightly edge and corner worn binding; Lacks dust jaket; 416p. Very Good. Signed By Authors.

Clausen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 25027

Catalogue: Railroads

Keywords: American Railroad History, Steam Locomotives, American History/Americana Photographs; Drawings and Engravings

Beebe, Lucius,

Highball: A Pageant of Trains.

New York, Bonanza Books, Undated. Reprint. Hardcover., Vg/Vg- Dj Sunned at Spine. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 225.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER325656I

Catalogue: Trains

Beebe, Lucius

Highball: A Pageant of Trains

New York, Bonanza. 1945, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, A square solid tight copy that was very carefully read. This copy has a couple of light corner bumps, some light pagedge soil, some light board edgewear. The 6.00 plain paper jacket has some rubbing wear, some soil, some edge chipping at the top and base of the spine, several short closed tears. This looks like an early re-issue of the Appleton-Croft 1945 editon with a capital A on the copyright page indication a First Printing of this edition. Included with this copy is an 8 x 10 black and white photo of a diesel engine of the Angelina & Neches River Railroad Co. Also included is a post office canceled Post Card featuring an aerial view of the Horseshoe Curve at Altoona, PA which was mailed in 1969 with a cancelled 6 cent stamp. 220 plus pages with many photos and illustrations. Very Good +.

Pat Cramer, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 024326

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Railroad Reference