Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB: Transportation
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The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915
Baltimore, Maryland, The John Hopkins University Press, 1995. Hardcover. black & brown cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 328 pgs w/ bw illustrations. copper & black pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. "..Combines economic, business, labor, and social history and the history technology to write a dazzling account of this giant of nineteenth-century industry."--Publisher. Good+ (slight spine lean; textblock firm. pink smudge to lower textblock, some pgs will have light remnants to lower edges. spine ends rubbed & creased. light bump to upper corner; light rubbing to corners. back cover endpaper has light yellow staining/smudging to edge. pgs have occasional light smudges, coffee-like spot or light stain, otherwise appear free of marginalia. dustjacket has edge-wear, scuffs & scratches; fade price-sticker to back cover) .
-- Boeknummer: 183439
USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 51.25]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Baldwin Locomotive Works, History of Baldwin Locomotive Works ; Baldwin Locomotive Works ; ;
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume I: Building an Empire, 1846-1917
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. Red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in B&W. 945 pp. Includes maps and index. First and only published volume of what is to become a set. "Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation" - from dust jacket. VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight .
Boeknummer: 178312
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 69.75]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Transportation, Trains, Pennsylvania Railroad ; Trains ; ;
Dinsmore's Railroad and Steam Navigation Guide and Route- Book, Volume VI, Number 1
New York, Dinsmore & Co, 1858. Softcover. Missing outer wraps; 256 pp, bw illustrations and maps. Mounted prior to the title page is a fold-out set of advertisements. A very rare edition of Dinsmore's railroad and steam navigation guide and route-book. This being Volume VI, Number 1 from May 1858. Includes an index to the railroads, the official time tables with distances, fares, etc. Also includes maps of several cities; Portland, Boston, New York City, Albany, Montreal, Niagra Falls and Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore. Good (missing covers, Soiling to outer pages, light foxing spots to block, expected age toning but all pages are otherwise clear.) .
Boeknummer: 185383
USD 775.00 [Appr.: EURO 720.25]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Transportation ; Railroads ; ;
Billboard Refrigerator Cars
Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2008. Hardcover. blue cloth boards w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 224 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy blue and pictorial dustjacket. 400+ photographs. A nice copy. VG+ light wear & creasing to spine bottom. light foxing to textblock fore-edge; instances of light foxing to pg edges. pgs clean. dustjacket has smudges & scratches.
Boeknummer: 178637
USD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 79]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Refrigerator Railroad Cars ; Refrigerator Railroad Cars ; ;
Great Northern Steam & Electric in Color
Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Morning Sun Books, 1999. Hardcover. green boards w/ gilt printing & emblem. 128 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, pictorial green dustjacket. Appears to have been minimally handled; interior clean & bright. Wonderfully illustrated. Near Fine (slight spine lean; textblock & hinges firm. dustjacket has edge-wear.) .
Boeknummer: 183437
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.5]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Great Northern Railroad, Great Northern Steam Railroad, Great Northern Electric Raildroad, American Railroad ; Great Northern Railroad ; ;
The Car Builder's Dictionary, 1906: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms Which Designate American Railroad Cars Their Parts
Kentfield, California, Newton K. Gregg, 1971. Hardcover. green boards w/ gilt spine printing. 166 pgs w/ section of 6,344 illustrations; 54 pgs of advertisments. A mammoth edition of technical illustrations for the railroad historian and enthusiast. Wonderful, early 1900s era advertisments. VG- (textblock edge has red scuffs/shelf-wear; rubbing to corners w/ red staining; back corner bumped & creased; edge-wear. textblock rattled; firm w/ intact pgs. previous owners name to cover pastedown) .
Boeknummer: 183434
USD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 79]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Railway Cars, Railroads, American Railroads ; Railway Cars, Railroads, American Railroads ; ;
Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Vol. 2: Refrigerator Cars and Ice Bunker Cars, 1884-1979
Norman, Oklahoma, The Santa Fe Modelers Organization Inc, 1994. Spiral bound. oblong, spiral bound pictoral covers. 288 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated with diagrams and component/mechancism breakdown of models. VG. light coffee staining & warping to title pg through pg 11. pgs edge-toned.
Boeknummer: 178633
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 93]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Santa Fe Railroad Company; Santa Fe Railway Cars; Santa Fe Refigerator Cars ; Santa Fe Railway Cars, Santa Fe Railroad Company ; ;
Tank Cars: American Car & Foundry Company, 1865 to 1955
Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2003. Hardcover. navy boards w/ silver printing. book xiv, 264 pgs w/ bw & select color illustrations. glossy blue pictorial dustjacket. A very nice copy. VG+ light rubbing to corners; light scratches to boards. pgs clean. dustjacket has light scratches & smudges.
Boeknummer: 178634
USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 74.5]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Railroad Tank Cars; American Car and Foundry Company ; Railroad Tank Cars, American Car and Foundry Company ; ;
Prunkwagen Und Schlitten
Leipzig, Germany, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. Hardcover. maroon cloth boards w/ gilt printing & emblem; gilt spine embellishments & black, gilt title plate. 183 pgs w/ various bw illustrations & plates; section of 60 bw plates. text in German. Appears to have had it's textblock rebound. Textblock is firm with intact pages. Spine sunned but gilt printing and designs remain bright and defined. Frontispiece with tissue-guard intact. Pages appear clean, but, may have instances of underlining, marginalia, etc. A fascinatingly illustrated tour of ornately designed sleds and carriages through the ages. Good (ex-library w/ internal stamps, usual markings, etc. scuffs & scratches to boards; sunning to back cover; edge-wear. corners rubbed. spine sunned w/ ends chipped & torn. 1inch split to upper gutter/hinge of back cover.) .
Boeknummer: 185572
USD 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 111.75]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Carriage Design, Sled Design ; Carriage Design ; ;
Pere Marquette: Passenger Car Pictorial
Grand Haven, Michigan, Pere Marquette Historical Society, 2002. Hardcover. oblong green cloth boards w/ git design & printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 299 pgs w/ bw photos. glossy, blue pictorial dustjacket. "This book presents the pictorial history of the passenger equipment of the Pere Marquette Railway, from its formation in 1900 through its merger with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1947, to the C & O equipment used thereafter"--Page 5. Good+/G-. sunning to top cover edges. pgs edge toned. back cover flyleaf has foxing/soiling-like smudges. dustjacket sunned at edges; large tear to back cover edge; chips to edges; sticker to back cover.
Boeknummer: 178642
USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 65.25]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Pere Marquette Railroad; Pere Marquette Railroad Cars; Pere Marquette Passenger Cars ; Pere Marquette Railroad, Pere Marquette Railroad Cars, Pere Marquette Passenger Cars ; ;
Letters from and to the Ford Motor Company
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with burgundy cloth spine, gilt spine lettering; 27 unnumbered pages, 1 wood engraving. The correspondence between American poet Marianne Moore and marketing executive David Wallace concerning an appropriate name for a new line of automobiles being designed by the Ford Motor Company. Despite the appeal of Miss Moore's final submission "Utopian Turtletop," the line was ultimately branded, as it turns out, under the unfortunate name--Edsel. "The edition of this book consists of five hundred fifty copies. Four hundred copies have been reserved for the Fellows of The Pierpont Morgan Library and one hundred fifty copies are offered for sale. They have been printed at The Spiral Press in New York. The wood engraving by Leonard Baskin has been printed from the original block"--Colophon. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps inside front and rear covers with date stamp on foreword page. Binding is tight. Pages are otherwise clean.) .
Boeknummer: 184533
USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.75]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Transportation ; Ford Motor Company ; ;
Southern Pacific Official Cars: Business, Private, Instruction, Hospital and Company Service Cars
Upland, California, Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 2015. Hardcover. oblong, light greyish-blue cloth boards w/ black spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 527 pgs w/ bw & illustrations. glossy, grey and orange pictorial dustjacket. Wonderfully illustrated and annotated with select color illustrations. Includes diagrams. VG. creasing to corners & cover edges; creasing to spine ends. dustjacket has edge-wear; scratches & scoring to back cover; closed tear to cover edge.
Boeknummer: 178632
USD 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 111.75]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Southern Pacific Rail Cars; Southern Pacific Railroad ; Southern Pacific Rail Cars ; ;
Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops: Incubator of Innovation
Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2010. Hardcover. grey cloth w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyeafs. 496 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, green pictorial dustjacket. Coverage in this book ranges from the earliest days of the Sacramento shops..to the final closue. The book contains over 600 photos along with 21 drawings and maps. VG+/VG. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has tape repaired tear to top cover edge; spine bottom worn & rubbed.
Boeknummer: 178638
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.25]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; ;
The Track Data Handbook
Omaha, Nebraska, Simmons-Boardman Books, 1994. 4th printing. Softcover. red half-wraps w/ gilt printing; rivet bound. 301 pgs w/ multiple fold-outs, diagrams & schematics. "This handbook has been prepared for the purpose of providing a readily accessible field reference for readmasters, track supervisors, track foremen, surveyors and similiar personnel engaged in the planning and execution of track mainteance and construction work."--Publisher. As New (light scuffs & edge-wear to wraps) .
Boeknummer: 183440
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.5]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Track Data Handbook ; Track Data Handbook ; ;
A Description of the Canals and Railroads of the United States
New York, T.R. Tanner & J. Disturnell, 1840. Hardcover. Tooled leather and spine. 272 pages maps. Wonderful reference and maps. Existing railroads and canals and those planned, with glossary, condensed summary, and index, plus four page publisher's catalogue in the rear. Two foldout maps, a New Map of New York, and a New Map of Pennsylvania, and two foldouts with railroad and canal profiles. G, cover have nromal wear for age, spine is chipped and frayed top/bottom. Pages have light to moderate foxing. Foxing to text block. Text block is still strong. Maps in good condition. Bind could repaired easily.
Boeknummer: 185878
USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 325.25]
Catalogus: Transportation
Trefwoorden: Transportation, Canals, Railroads -- United States. ; Canals and Railroads ; ;
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