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PO Box 448 Talent OR 97540
Description:
Chapters include a Dictionary of Words, Terms and Phrases, Block Signals, Interlocking, Highway Crossing Signals, and Accessories. 526 pages with numerous
photographic examples, wiring diagrams, equipment illustrations, etc. 23 pages of ads in the rear. Bound in dark brown leather. Recently professionally rebacked with
cover corners repaired. A very good copy.
Genre: Railroad Technology
Price $975.00
Description:
An illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railroad locomotives, their parts, attachments, and details of construction. 5148 illustrations of locomotives and
their parts. 523 pages plus 46 pages of advertisements. Presented as a gift to W. Moir with his name in gilt on front cover. Bound in full leather with lettering and relief in
gilt. Spine ends with shallow wear and chipping. Leather covers lightly shellacked. Owner's name of the front endpaper. Contents fine, leather covers very good. A very
nice copy. This is the very first locomotive dictionary [cyclopedia].
Genre: Railroad Technology
Price $650.00
Description:
Copy number 3833 signed by Koch on special limitation page. The definitive book on the Shay locomotive, the preponderant locomotive of choice of the logging industry,
consisting of 486 pages of text, photographs, color art, and builder's construction list of every Shay built. A perceptive biography of the inventor, the exciting story of the
colorful logging industry in its heyday, a corporate history of the Lima Locomotive Works and the Shay locomotives it built. Bound in maroon cloth with lettering and
illustration stamped in gilt. Certificate for separate duplicate color prints laid in. Ownership stamp on the top of the text block and the reverse of the front free endpaper.
Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Genre: Railroad Technology
Price $350.00
Description:
Scribner's "A" and seal present on the copyright page. Referenced in Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 5-64. Dust jacket and illustrations by Clifford Geary. First state dust
jacket with $2.50 price. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. A superior copy.
Genre: Science Fiction
Price $1,400.00
Description:
The third book published by Arkham House. Collects twenty of Smith's stories. Jacket art by Hannes Bok. Only 1054 copies printed. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House,
3. Fine in fine dust jacket with the merest hint of toning to the lettering on the spine panel. A superior copy.
Genre: Arkham House
Price $3,500.00