A substantial group of twentieth-century railroad reference books and pictorial histories, with emphasis on Western U.S. railroads, steam locomotives, and industrial lines. To include: (A) Early Railroad Days in New Mexico, 1880. Henry Allen Tice. Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press. Southwestern Series Number 2. First printing limited to 700 copies. 61 pages. 7″ high x 5 1/4″ wide. (B) The Northern Pacific Main Street of the Northwest. Charles R. Wood. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1968. First edition. Pictorial history. 208 pages. 10 3/4″ high x 8 1/2″ wide. (C) Gold Rush Narrow Gauge: The Story of the White Pass and Yukon Route. Cy Martin. California: Trans-Anglo Books, 1974. 96 pages. Taped to first page is a pencil written note from a customer of the consigner. (D) Santa Fe’Steel Rails Through California. Donald Duke and Stan Kistler. California: Golden West Books, 1976. 184 pages. 11″ high x 8 3/4″ wide. (E) Colorado Rail Annual No. 12. The South Park Line: A Concise History. Chappell, Richardson & Hauck. 1974. 280 pages. 11 1/4″ high x 8 3/4″ wide. (F) Colorado Rail Annual No. 13. A History of The Florence & Cripple Creek Railroads. Tivis E. Wilkins. Colorado: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1976. 207 pages. 11 1/4″ high x 8 3/4″ wide. (G) Lines West. A Pictorial History of the Great Northern Railway Operations and Motive Power from 1887 to 1967. Charles R. Wood. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. 192 pages. 10 3/4″ high x 8 1/2″ wide. Signed by consigner inside. (H) The Collected Colorado Rail Annual. A Journal of the Railroad History in the Rocky Mountain West. Reprinted from issues numbers one through seven. Colorado: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1974. 136 pages. 11 1/4″ high x 8 3/4″ wide. Signed by consigner inside. (I) Makin’ Tracks: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Pictures and Words of the Men Who Were There. Lynne Rhodes Mayer and Kenneth E. Vose. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. 178 pages. 10 3/4″ high x 11 3/4″ wide. Signed by consigner inside. (J) Rio Grande: Mainline of the Rockies. Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. California: Berkeley Howell-North, 1962. 380 pages. 11 1/4″ high x 9″ wide. (K) The Overland Trail From the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake. A Scenic Guide Book “Through the Heart of the Sierras” On the Line of the Southern Pacific. Vintage promotional booklet containing (22) mounted color illustrations including San Francisco, Sacramento, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe, Reno, The Great Salt Lake, Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City etc. Scrapbook style cover. 9″ high x 11 3/4″ wide. (L) Civil War Railroads & Models. Edwin P. Alexander. New York: Clarkson Potter Inc., 1977. First edition. 256 pages. 12″ high x 9 1/4″wide. Signed inside by consigner. (M) The Locomotives that Baldwin Built. Containing a complete facsimile of the original history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1923. Fred Westing. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. 191 pages. 10 3/4″ high x 8 1/2″ wide. (N) Early American Steam Locomotives: 1st Seven Decades 1830-1900. Reed Kinert. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition. 158 pages. 8 3/4″ high x 11″ wide. (O) The 1871 Grant Locomotive Works Catalog. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1971. Centennial Limited Edition #979 of 1500 by Mallory Hope Ferrell. Signed by author. 9 1/4″ high x 12″ wide. Sleeve affixed inside back cover contains a foldup locomotive drawing. (P) The Railroaders. Keith Wheeler. New York: Time-Life Books, 1973. The Old West Series. 240 pages. 11″ high x 8 1/2″ wide. Signed inside by consigner. Leather cover with train image and raised designs. (Q) This Was Railroading: An Historical Collection of Rare Photos and True Stories about the Tracks, Trains and Trainmen of the Pacific Northwest Including Northern California. George B. Abdill. New York: Bonanza Books, 1958. 192 pages. Signed by previous owner inside. Foxing to pages. (R) Rails West: A Collectors Album of a Vanishing Era in Railroadiana. George Abdill. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960. 191 pages. 10 1/2″ high x 8 1/4″ wide. Signed by consigner inside. (S) A Locomotive Engineer’s Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America. Fifth in the Old Railroad Series. George Abdill. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition. 190 pages. 10 3/4″ high x 8 1/4″ wide. (T) Recent Locomotives 1886. Enlarged edition. California: Newton K. Gregg Publisher, 1972. 16″ long x 11 1/2″ wide. Several fold out diagrams. Provenance: From the estate of Alan Gaines of A & A Gaines Antiques, Newport, Rhode Island. Condition varies throughout, with typical age-related wear including foxing, dustjacket tears, edge wear, occasional spine issues, and minor internal notes. (K) Cover shows wear, staining and some paper loss. Some folds and tears to illustrations inside. (N) Significant wear and tear to dustjacket. Price tag affixed to front cover. (O) No dustjacket. (Q) Dustjacket shows wear and tears. Old partial price sticker affixed to front cover. (S) Wear, tears and staining to dustjacket. Remnant of old price label affixed to cover. (T) Separation to spine. Significant loss and wear to dustjacket.
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