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Image for [Printed Broadside] AMAZING! A Beautiful White Ship Is Spotted Entering the Golden Gate, At 10:00 a.m., Thursday Morning, July 20, 1961, an unusual and thrilling sight filled the eyes of a hardy band of lookouts perched on the very top of Telegraph Hill.

[Printed Broadside] AMAZING! A Beautiful White Ship Is Spotted Entering the Golden Gate, At 10:00 a.m., Thursday Morning, July 20, 1961, an unusual and thrilling sight filled the eyes of a hardy band of lookouts perched on the very top of Telegraph Hill.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, : 1961

Seller ID: 8969

Condition: Fine

23" x 7.5"; printed in black on yellow newsprint stock with vignette illustrations; neatly folded into fourths.
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1968 Cadillac Owner's Manual. (cover title).

By: (Service Dept.).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Detroit, General Motors : 1967

Seller ID: 3707

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

95 pp.; oblong 24mo; printed wrappers, in original plastic pouch; sepia photographs throughout; charts. Back cover with 1/4" x 3.5" sections cut out at top & bottom edge; small areas of pen notes & figures on rear endpaper, inside & outside back cover. Pouch somewhat soiled.
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Cable Car Carnival

By: Beebe, Lucius, and Charles Clegg

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oakland, Grahame Hardy : 1951

Seller ID: 10416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Limited Edition Autographed by the authors. Red paper over boards, lettered in white; in pictorial jacket in protective mylar wrap. With over 150 historical illustrations chiefly photographs. In near fine slipcase with trivial tanning at edges. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 130 pages
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James Rumsey, the Inventor of the Steamboat.

By: Beltzhoover, Mr. George M., Jr.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: no place, The West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society : 1900

Seller ID: 2433

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

28 pp.; 8vo; original printed gray wrappers. Text block is stapled but wrapper loose along most of spine; clear tape mend from back over top of spine; loss of leading corner tips back cover; last four pages dog-eared at top corner tips. Overall still quite acceptable condition for a scarce and fragile original.
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River Boats of America.

By: Donovan, Frank.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell : 1966

Seller ID: 5164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

298 pp., illustrated double title page; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket; illustrated with 90 photographs and drawings.

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Railroad History 178. Spring, 1998.

By: Grant, H. Roger, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 1998

Seller ID: 2643

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; b&w photos, reproductions, maps, tables. Articles include: Taylor & Taylor, The Story of America's Chapel Cars; Podas, Railroading on the Pioneer route of the Milwaukee Road: The Dan Paine Story; Meredith, A Wild Ride on Badnall's Famous Undulating Railway; Johnson, The Montreal Secondary: Origins and History. With other articles & discussions.
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Railroad History 180. Spring, 1999.

By: Grant, H. Roger, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. : 1999

Seller ID: 2644

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; b&w photos, reproductions, maps, tables.

Articles include: Huffman, Railraods Shipped by Sea; Alrich, Engineering Success and Disaster: American Rairoad Bridges; Grant, The North Western's Legacy; Humiston, The South Works Narrow-Gauge Railroad; Larson, Locomotives of the Tennessee, Alabama, & Georgia Railway. Also book reviews.
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The Voyage of the Racoon: a 'Secret' Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814. Drawings by Henry Rusk.

By: Hussey, John A. (ed).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Book Club of California : 1958

Seller ID: 8787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

400 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. xxvii, introduction by Hussey; 36 pp.; 4to; black leather spine lettered in gilt over marbled boards; T. & T. errata slip in verse, inserted at rear endpapers. H. M. S. Racoon was the vessel sent by Great Britain to take posession of the American fur-trading post at Astoria during the War of 1812.
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Seventy-Five Years of Railroad History, Cumulative Index, 1921-1996.

By: Jenks, George M., compiler.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [Westford, MA], The RAilway & Locomotive Society Inc. : 1997

Seller ID: 2657

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

98 pp.; 8vo; red wrappers.
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Adventure in Two Hemispheres, including, Captain Vancouver's Voyage.

By: Marshall, James Stirrat and Carrie.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Vancouver, By the author : 1955

Seller ID: 5904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed by Carrie Marshall on title page. 208 pp.; 4to; black cloth lettered in gilt, with ship illustration in white front cover. In illustrated yellow & black dust jacket with chips & closed tears at edges; 2" tear with loss foot of front spine edge. Very Good dust , in protective mylar wrap; Signed by Author(s)
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Railroad History 149. Autumn 1983.

By: Post, Robert C., ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 1983

Seller ID: 2641

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; b&w photos, reproductions, maps, tables. Printed sheet of Railroad Names, compiled by William D. Edson laid in. Guest Editorial: Hanft. An Accounting Primer for Railroads. Articles include: Dundee-Built Locomotives; Hauk, Early Narrow Gauge Ocomotives in the West; Stindt, The Last Days of Southern Pacific Steam. Also, other articles & discussions.
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Railroad History 155 Autumn 1986

By: Post, Robert C., ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 1986

Seller ID: 2654

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; b&w photos, reproductions, folding map of Western Maryland Railway System showing original corporations and dates of construction; locomotive rosters.
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CZ Instruction Book Car 881 (cover label). Service instructions and procedures applicable to the Lounge-Sleepers on the California Zephyr.

By: Railroad.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago Burlington and Quincy R.R. : 1969

Seller ID: 4698

Binding: Binder

Condition: Good

Approx. 29 mimeograph & carbon sheets, plus company printed time report, supply report and inventory of bar supplies, both with holograph entries. Bound in brown folder with two hole blade lock. Other company forms: a sample form and a blank of Report of Dining Car Receipts, and blanks of Requisition of Commisary Supplies, and Supply Reports are laid in, along with two Union Pacific decals, and an SP brochure of Passenger Train Schedules. Occasional soiling, thumbing, browning to pages from use. Index: General Instructions; Working Schedule and Timeslip Instructions; Beverage Service; Liquor L...
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Railroad History 181. Autumn, 1999.

By: Reutter, Mark, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 1999

Seller ID: 2645

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; b&w photos, reproductions, maps, tables. Articles include: Collins, Progress and Slavery on the South's Railroads; Hoffer, A Ride on the Lionel and Other Short Lines; Abbey, Wh the Santa Fe Isn't Under Wires, etc., etc. with Book Reviews.
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Railroad History 182 Spring, 2000

By: Reutter, Mark, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Westford, MA, The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 1999

Seller ID: 2656

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial white wrappers; color and b&w photos, reproductions, maps, tables. Articles include: Bryant, Horation Alger Story: Henry U. Mudge; Le Massena, Design-It-Yourself Locomotive; White, The Railroad Pass: Perk or Plunder; Larson, "GNMZ" - Good Night Madison.
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Railroad History 185. Autumn, 2001.

By: Reutter, Mark, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: no place (Urbana, IL), The Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. : 2001

Seller ID: 2646

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; [9" x 6"]; pictorial blue wrappers; color and b&w photos, reproductions, tables. Subjects include: Deregulation / Abandonment / Boomer Tales. Nice section of color reproductions on Menu Art.
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Railroad History, Fall-Winter 2010, No. 203.

By: Reutter, Mark.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mark Reutter : 2010

Seller ID: 5099

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Magazine, color and b&w photos throughout. Featuring: Robert W. Downing; Toronto Sations; Signal Trilogy; Tibet; Amtrak Station Renewal
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Railroad History, Spring-Summer 2009, No. 200.

By: Reutter, Mark.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mark Reutter : 2009

Seller ID: 5101

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Magazine, color and b&w photos throughout. Featuring: R&LHS Milestones; Speed; Roster of 200s; Lincoln for the Defense; Amtrak's F40PH
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John Joseph Montgomery, 1858-1911, Father of Basic Flying.

By: Spearman, Arthur Dunning, S. J., documentation by.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Clara, University of Santa Clara Press : 1967

Seller ID: 8088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

241 pp., 8vo; cloth, without jacket. Moderate foxing at edges. Photograpsh and othe reproductions.
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The Naval and Mail Steamers of the United States.

By: STUART, CHARLES B.

Price: $850.00

Publisher: N.Y., London, Charles B. Norton; Sampson Low Son & Co. : 1853

Seller ID: 8917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Ex- Mechanic's Institute Library with the usual treatments including bookplate; hand or perforation stamps on title page. No stamps on the engravings and illustrations. 216 pp., (1)-21 notices of the press, letters, publisher's ad. Illustrated with 31 plates; 10 views of vessels including two frontispieces, the first a chromolighograph, the second tinted; portrait engraving of Stuart. Front board detached; spine cloth missing but covered with library glue over the cord binding. Contents holding together solidly; text and plates with tissue guards quite clean with only moderate toning at extrem...
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Category: Transportation