Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. First Edition. Signed. Quarto (27x22x0.5cm); 80pp. Ninety-four B&W reproductions of documentary photographs, maps, timetables, and railway ephemera. Photographic card wrappers. Card wrappers show some touches of shelfwear at edges and a bit of sunning near the card spine, which is uncracked. Textblock unmarred and..... More

Chicago: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. (16.5x33cm) printed in black. Stock worn, toned, and chipped, with a few instances of soiling, extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only.  Promotional broadside for the Chicago, Rock Island &..... More

Illinois: Frank's Fine Art Car, n.d., ca. early 1890s. Original albumen cabinet card of a serious young woman with her multi-thong riding whip (13x10cm) affixed to card mount (16.5x11cm) captioned along bottom edge "Frank's Fine Art Car." Image and mount a bit foxed along top edge, brief peeling from mount..... More

Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, 1985. First Editions, First Printings. Two volumes; quartos (28.5cm); publisher's boards in matching pictorial dust jackets; 165,[1]; [6],167-328pp.; nine folding maps bound in rear (four in Part I, five in Part II), illus. throughout. General wear to jacket margins including several small losses to top margin..... More

Berkeley: Signature Press, 2003. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, map endpapers; 414pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout, many in color. Brief wrinkling to top margins of dust jacket, else a Near Fine example. More

Unpublished autograph travel diary in a small notebook. May-June 1901. One commercially-produced octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 48 unlined pages, sewn gatherings, all pageblock edges gilt. Covered for preservation in black plasticized faux leather, with a stylized vintage label—Tagebuch [Journal]—painted in silver, by an amateur hand, on the front..... More

St. Paul, MN?: s.i., 1895?. Land map folded into a bi-fold informational pamphlet (90x95 cm; 23x11 cm); 9 unpaginated panels. All panels generally toned and creased, as expected, with minor rubbing to extremities and one closed tear to top edge of map along middle fold. Overall a Very Good or..... More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First UK Edition. Octavo. 342 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in gilt; map endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges of unclipped dust jacket with a few inoffensive spots. Boards show light shelfwear; vertical production crease along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very..... More

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., [1980]. First Edition. Slim quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly half-tone photographic illus. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners very gently bumped, faint clear tape reinforcement to jacket corners, else Very Good or better overall. The second title in..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, map endpapers; xviii,[4],583pp.; frontispiece, maps, plates and text illus. throughout. Light wear to cloth margins, corners bumped, textblock slightly shaken in binding, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half..... More

N.p.: U.P.R.R. Photograph, ca. 1880s. Small format albumen carte de visite (8.5x6cm mounted to card measuring 10x6.5cm.). Brief smudging, else Very Good to Near Fine. Portrait of a seated child, about 18 months old.  Verso printed in red with an engraved reproduction of the photographer's studio, which was housed in..... More