v, [151] pages, and 11 (unused) ruled leaves at rear. No stated date of issue. The "Changes in Rules and Instructions for the Running of Trains. Effective Saturday 4th July, 1903" has been pasted over the original (undated) title page - the latter may be seen under bright light, and reads: 'Dominion Atlantic Railway Company. Rules and Regulations to be Observed by all Officers, Servants, and Employes (sic) of the Company'. This book stamped 666 to one A.S. Potter, agent at Waterville [NS]. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. An uncommon survival. 3 x 5 inches. View More...
Two items: Route Guide / Trip Book, 114 pages with illustrations in colour, in comb-back binding. Belle of the South Convention Program and assorted information for 2-8 November, 2009 Savannah GA, 40 pleaves printed recto only [i.e. 80 pages] in comb-back binding. Each of the two booklets is in excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
One item: Convention Program and assorted information for 20-22 September 2010: Pueblo Colorado, 32 pages in comb-back binding. In excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
One item: Convention Program and assorted information for 20-22 October 2011: Kansas City Chief, 29 pages in coil binding. In excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
Two items: Route Guide / Trip Book, 102 pages in comb-back binding. Convention Program and assorted information for 27-29 September, 2012 Chattanooga TN, 29 pages in coil binding. Each of the two booklets is in excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
Two items: Route Guide & Special Train Information for Sept. 26 - October 5, 75 pages in comb-back binding. Convention Program and assorted information for 1-3 October, 2013 Napa Valley CA, 24 pages in comb-back binding. This one rather nice in that it has a photo and short history of the cars arriving for the conference. Small coffee spill stain top corner of first 2 pages. Each of the two booklets is in excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
One item: Route Guide & Special Train Information for Sept. 18-26 Annual Convention Portland Maine, 106 pages in comb-back binding. In excellent condition. At time of listing we have booklets for each AAPRCO annual Train / Convention from 2004 through 2014. Please inquire for shipping costs on multiple orders. View More...
No place of publication given, no publisher stated. 36pp. Train, Bus, and Ferry schedules, business advertisements, radio call letters and frequencies from this period in the Annapolis Valley. Wraps grimed, staples starting to rust but secure. View More...
396 [of 401] pages. Uncommon early motoring guide for the eastern and middle states. Lacking spine panel. The final 5 printed pages, endpaper, and rear board are detached as a whole but present; the rest remains securely bound. Extremities of front cover chipped. In Return To Taos, Eric Sloane notes: "Probably the first American automobile road map was in 'Automobile Good Roads and Tours,' published in 1905 by the Hartford Rubber Works, which sold for two dollars" [21]. View More...
24 pages and four stereo plates. Light soil to covers and scuffing to spine. Light staining to margin of 3 plates intruding slightly to image of one (as seen in photo). Two sets of paper stereo glasses laid in, one possibly original - neither provide a mind-blowing experience. Text in French. View More...
Set of four large linen-backed maps. No stated date of issue. Each measuring 9.2 x 5.5 inches, and folding out to 36.5 x 43 inches. Scale is 3.25 inches to one mile; the plans are divided into half mile squares. Pasted-on paper price strip of 6/- Net. Faint stamp to rear cover of one: Sold by George Philip & Son, Ltd. / 32 Fleet ST. London, and same stamp more boldly in the other three on linen at first fold. Minor soiling to front cover of South-West; minor tideline with bleeding to rear cover left edge of North West [please consult photos for both these issues]; and a few faint drops to rear... View More...
Caledonia Railway: 160 pages, 9 sepia plates, and (part of) folding map. Followed on blue paper by: London and North-Western Railway, West Coast Tourist Guide to Scotland: 44 pages, and 4 sepia plates. NB: lacking covers, any leaves prior to page 1 at front, and any following 44 at rear. Only a lower portion of the folding map remains (roughly 6 x 20 inches); first and final two leaves worn and detached. Title inferred: 'Caledonian Railway Tourist Guide' is printed at foot of the Caledonia plates. Date inferred: code at foot of page 1: B-1/7/82, and notice re. applications to insert advertisem... View More...
161 pages. 9.2 x 6.8 inches. Publisher's printed wrapper with chips to extremities. Binding secure. 2 inch closed tear to foot of one leaf [no loss of paper]. "Special discount sheet applying to 1916 Catalog No. 51" laid in. A comprehensive and profusely illustrated resource, with alphabetical index as well as a particular index for Ford cars, and for overland specialties at rear. "More than 2000 auto parts, accessories and supplies and every one a money saver". View More...
String-tied menu 10 x 7 inches. Staining to card cover; else very good. Originally the property of Louis J. Heath, United Press "correspondent for 150 newspapers in 21 South and Central American countries" [Wikipedia]. View More...
Dated July 1, 1913 / Due August 1, 1951. Overleaf dated February 1928 at Scranton. Folio sheet folded. When folded to make 4 pages this measures 14 x 8.5 inches. Diagonally printed in red on each of 4 sides: "Proof - Preliminary And Subject To Change / Figures And Statements Herein Not To Be Relied On As Final". Pencil notation to foot of page 1 and on blank page 4; pen to margin of page 2. Three horizontal creases with half-inch closed tear along the centre crease at right margin, and tan line to page 4 (blank). View More...
Large folding map in 25 linen-backed sections. 42 x 41 inches, folding to 9 x 8.75 in cloth. Cloth quite scuffed; some splitting to linen along creases not affecting map; some spotting to verso of linen. Map colours vibrant. View More...
204 pages; folding map at rear, and two plates in colour. No place of publication stated. Profusely illustrated with photo reproductions. Earlier issues of this have fewer pages. Spine panel pulled at head; final leaf pulled away from staples but soundly attached to rear panel. No Inscriptions. 9.1 x 6.3 pages. View More...