London & North Eastern Railway. Soft cover. Very Good. Undated, but about 1932. No. 6 in the Tours in Scotland series of tourist guides put out by the London & North Eastern Railway, detailing steamer cruise highlights. Stapled wrappers. Folding map of Clyde Coast Sailings and Connections. Illustrated w/photographs. Covers..... Item #11164
Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1928. Hardcover. Very good. 80 pp, illustrated. 7 x 9.75 inches, oblong. Some nibbling to cloth at bottom edge and spine. Binding sound, contents clean. As explained in the Foreword, Locomotive 60,000 was designed as an experiment to ascertain the gain in efficiency by the use..... Item #20596
Detroit, MI: Nash Motors. Soft cover. Very Good. Undated, but c. 1952. 70 pp, consisting of 158 historic photographs, with brief descriptions of each car pictured. Comb binding. Comb is damaged at the foot of the spine, covers have light edgewear. Contents clean. Item #12164
Stuttgart: Porsche AG, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2013 promotional book/catalogue for the 918 Spyder. 83 pp, extensively illustrated in color, with ribbon bookmark bound in. Lightly bumped front bottom corner, minimal shelf wear; else fine. Includes features and specs, color and trim options, racing packages, etc. Item #3110
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1899]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume XI, No. 2. pp. 285-303 + 5 illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Handling wear, vertical folding crease; text clean. Report on testing done by the U.S. Navy on..... Item #2875
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply..... Item #1652
Syracuse, NY: Franklin Automobile Company, 1914. Approximately 6 x 9 inches, 16 pp, with half-tone illustrations in the text. Stapled wrappers. But for a previous owner's ink stamp in purple ink on both the upper wrap and title page, the pamphlet is fine, clean, and bright. Not found in OCLC..... Item #19800
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. xi, 560 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, diagrams, appendices, index. Minimal signs of wear in like dust jacket. "From the first spherical balloons made by Eustace and Oswald Short, the author traces the brothers' progress as..... Item #399
1919. Softcover. Very Good. 22 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, old horizontal crease; contents clean and sound. Text of the resolution of a lawsuit grought by the United States Govenment over oil-bearing lands in California granted to Southern Pacific Railroad. The Government argued that Southern Pacific..... Item #1495
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. Second printing. 222 pp, in original brick-colored cloth. Boards lightly soiled; mild spine slant. Binding sound, contents clean. No dust jacket. Despite the expose-like title, this biography paints a favorable portrait of Ford. Item #14352
Lausanne: The Association Pro Sempione. Softcover. Very Good-. Undated, c. 1907. 120 pp, with many sepia-toned illustrations from photographs, two color plates, and a one-page map. Large chip missing from corner of front cover; back cover with a tape repair; contents clean and sound. Intented "to introduce the traveller to..... Item #1746
Louisville, KY: John P. Morton, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. 144 pp, with maps, illustrations, in original wrappers Front wrap starting to separate at spine ends (but still firmly attached); contents clean. Revised, with material not contained in earlier editions. A prefatory section titled "Announcement" noted that the original purpose of..... Item #1510
Mossley, UK: Manchester Transport Museum Society, 1980. Softcover. Near fine. 120 pp, with b/w and color illustrations, tables, maps tipped in at rear. Minor handling wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. A history of transport in Ashton-Under-Lyne extensively illustrated. Includes chapters on turnpikes, canals and railways, horse trams, trolleybus..... Item #436
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Near fine. Large, detailed folding table, accompanied by one text page, in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear, contents clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 1. "The accompanying table has been prepared with a view..... Item #2845
ournal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. 1 pp + 2 (folding tables), in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few short chips and tears to edges; text clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 3. Tables..... Item #2876
Boston: Little, Brown, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 206 pp, indexed, illustrated, in original brown cloth. Spine lean, wear to corners and spine ends, including chipping to the cloth at the head; occasional penciled lines in the margins.Binding sound. No dust jacket. A highly regarded character study of Henry Ford..... Item #14351
Chicago: Midland Press, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Salesman's dummy. Moderate general wear and soiling to boards, a few smudges in the margins, old water damage to lower margin of about half the page. Includes c. 30 pp of b/w illustrations from photographs and sample text, with blank subscription pages at rear..... Item #2541
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Near fine. Offprint. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 1. Pages 445-463 + 4 plates (3 charts, photographic frontispiece) in original wrappers. Discusses testing on the steamer's boilers, engines, and electrical plant. Item #2871
Bloomington, IN; Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. x, 297 pp, with notes, selected bibliography, index. An overview of the history of railroads in Indiana with information on major railways, short lines, abandonments, bridges, tunnels, trains, disasters, any many other topics. As..... Item #78
Einsiedeln: Art. Inst. Benziger & Co., 1895. Softcover. Fine. 4 pp, 5 x 3.5 inches, with chromolithograph cover, timetable inside, and route map on the back. A fine copy of this scarce and lovely little booklet, which provides schedules (in both directions) for the following routes: Rapperswil-Einsiedeln-Arth Goldau; Wädensweil -..... Item #21284
Hartford, CT: Pope Manufacturing Co., [1913]. 8.75 x 11.75 inches, [7] pp, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Some scratching and light soiling to front wrap, internals clean. Very good. Not located in OCLC. Boston businessman Alfred Pope saw his first bicycle at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Enchanted by the..... Item #20036
Medina, Ohio: Alvin Staufer, 1991. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Fifth printing. 447 pages, with more than 1000 illustrtations. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing the the folds. Oversized; shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Item #20962
