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The Age of Steam, Signed Limited Edition
by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg  Notes New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1957[]. Quarto, 21x28cm. 304pp. Limited edition, "The Mainline Edition," number 283 of 400 copies, signed by both authors on the limitation page. Original quarter red cloth, black cloth over boards, spine stamped in...
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Rare Books: $150.00 Hardcover
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RX-8: The Mazda RX-8: World's First 4-door, 4-seat Sports Car Plus Complete Histories of Mazda Rotary Engine Development and Rotary Racing Around the World
by Jack K. Yamaguchi Notes Miura-Gun: RING Ltd., (2003). Quarto, 23 x 30 cm. 191pp. First edition. Original silver cloth, front board and spine stamped in blind. In an unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. Edited by John Dinkel. Corners slightly bumped. Dust...
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Rare Books: $150.00 Hardcover
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Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer
by R. M. Rylatt Notes Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, (1991). Octavo, 16x23.5cm, 246pp. 1st edition. Original brown cloth, spine stamped in silver. Name in ink on the front free endpaper. Light scuffing to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Near fine/near fine. DJM...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Slipcase
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Race
by Angelo Angelopolous Notes Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958 Photo illustrated boards with ring binding in slip case. Near Fine/Near Fine(Gift inscription FPEP;Very slight rubbing to board edges & spine ends;Faint soiling of endpapers. DJ-Clear acetate jacket w/printing on...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Set Hardcover
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Trains Album of Railroad Photographs
by Kalmbach Notes Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1943. Oblong Quartos, 26 x 35cm. Bound in decorative buckram. Nine Books bound in two volumes. Numerous black and white photographs with very little text. Good. jjt....
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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Steamship Models
by E Keble Chatterton Notes London: T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1924. 4to. Number 670 of 1,000 signed copies. Original light blue decorated cloth. Rubbed, slightly soiled. G/- GWB...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Hardcover
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Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice 20th Edition
by C. L. Combes Notes New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1957. Quarto, 225x298mm. 1114pp. Twentieth edition. Original burgundy cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrations and diagrams throughout. Lightly rubbed, light wear to the corners and spine ends. Slightly...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Hardcover
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Locomotive Dictionary 1906
by George L. Fowler Notes Novato: Newton K. Gregg, (1972). Quarto, 22x30cm. [vi],100pp,[iv],523pp,[i],46pp. A facsimile reprint of the first edition published by The Railway Gazette in 1906. Original orange buckram, spine gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Black & white...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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The Chain-Drive Frazer Nash
by David Thirlby Notes London: Macdonald, (1965). Octavo, 16 x 24 cm. 237pp. First edition. Original black cloth, spine gilt. In an uclipped dust jacket. Illustrations in black & white. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped along the head and tail. Dyust jacket with light edgewear,...
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Rare Books: $70.00 Hardcover
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Rubber: Its History and Development
by Harvey S. Firestone Notes Ohio: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, 1922. First edition. Long 4to. 146pp. Illustrated throughout. Black cloth hardcover with gilt letters on the cover. Blank spine. No DJ. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is good. Boards are good. Slightly rubbed at the...
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Rare Books: $300.00 Hardcover
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The History of the Union Pacific Railroad in Cheyenne: A Pictorial Odyssey to the Mecca of Steam 1st Edition
by Robert Darwin Notes Carmel Valley: Express Press Limited, (1987). Oblong folio, 41x29cm. xiv,386pp. First edition. Original red cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Cloth with a trace...
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Norfolk and Western Railway: First Generation Diesels
by Paul K. Withers and Robert G. Bowers Notes Red cloth-covered boards w/gilt title,etc. on front board & spine. Near Fine/Near Fine(Book is in As New condition with only hint of cocking to the spine. DJ-As New condition but for some tiny shallow creases in very tips of spine ends...
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Rare Books: $850.00 Hardcover
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Manual of Coaching
by Fairman Rogers Notes Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. Limited edition of 1500 copies (one thousand for America). 8vo. 579pp. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Deckle edges. Spine extremities bumped, rubbed. Small tear and fold to head of spine...
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Model T Ford: The Car That Changed the World
by Bruce W. McCalley Notes Iola: Krause Publications, (1994). Quarto, 22 x 29 cm. x,614pp. Original black cloth, front board and spine stamped in silver. In an unclipped dust jacket. Printed entirely on glossy stock. Black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Trace of...
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Rare Books: $650.00 Hardcover
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Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America, 1st Edition
by David Stevenson Notes London: John Weale, 1838. First edition. 8vo.; xv, 320, 8pp. Complete with folding map as frontis, 5 folding maps/plans, 10 plates. Illustrated throughout text. Modern binding, paper over boards, paper label to spine. New pastedowns; original endpapers...
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Rare Books: $350.00 Hardcover
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Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing
by Guy Edwards Notes Richmond: Hazleton Publishing, (1992). Quarto, 25 x 30 cm. 447pp. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout, mostly in color. ISBN: 0-905138-95-3. Light wear at the corners and...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Hardcover
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Bourne's Great Western Railway
by John C. Bourne Notes New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Elephant folio, 54 x 39 cm. 58pp,[maps & plates]. First edition thus, a reprint of the 1843 first edition. Original quarter black cloth, grey cloth over boards, spine gilt. In the original paper dust jacket protected...
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Rare Books: $95.00 Hardcover
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Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, of the Northern Atlantic Ocean; And Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for the Navigation of That Sea 12th Edition
by John Purdy and Alexander G. Findlay Notes London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1865 Octavo, 14x22cm. 740pp + [24pp ads]. Twelfth edition. Original cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Several maps, some folding; map frontispiece depicting hurricane courses. Exterior worn, torn, and stained. Quite shaken...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Pamphlet
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Illustrated Description of the Broadway Underground Railway
by Alfred A. Beach Notes New Haven: Timothy Dwight Press, 1972. Reprinted by permission, Yale University Library. Staple bound pamphlet, a reprint of 1872 original published by the Beach Pneumatic Transit Co. G (some staining along edge of back cover, light shelfwear...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Hardcover
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Patterson's Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia
by Howard Patterson Notes Cleveland: The Marine Review Pub. Co., (1901). Quarto, 18x26cm. 514pp. Revised and enlarged edition. Original tan sailcloth over boards, spine and front board stamped in blue. No dust jacket. Color pictorial pastedowns. Black & white illustrations...
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