New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Signed by Tucker on blank preceding title page, dated November 18th, 1939. Octavo. 332 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with gilt and brown lettering. Price-clipped jacket is chipped and worn along edges with a couple closed tears..... More
Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, 1950. Stated First Printing. Signed by author with inscription to Dr. Harry Clifton Byrd, then president of the Univ. of Maryland. Blue boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked, tight in binding. Taff, a longstanding economics professor at the University of Maryland, served as..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1907. Special Publication of the Maryland Geological Survey, Volume VI, Part V. Octavo. [v]; 420-572. Color illustrations. Original wraps over boards recased in library binding with black buckram spine. Library stamp of District of Columbia Public Library inside front cover, with other expected..... More
Fifth Impression. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Fifth Impression. Signed by the author and his wife with inscription "To Dr. and Mrs. John Thompson Brown Ambler - With best wishes for many years in which to eat, drink and be merry in Maryland. Fred and Ruth Stieff, October sixth..... More
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 1993. [Visually Redesigned Edition, 1998]. Octavo; vi + 114pp. 200+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W and color. Full color glossy boards with pictorial front panel painted by Andrew Harmantas; photographic rear panel. Photographic double-spread front endpapers; rear endpapers reproduce train menu and tabulate historical..... More
Chicago: Steam Presses of F. Fulton & Co., 1862. Second Edition. Octavo; 95pp. Fold-out map at back. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with faint creases along edges and some smudging to front and back. Light foxing to a few pages, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. [Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints..... More
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 2003. First Edition. Octavo; 128pp. 250+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W. Full color glossy boards with photographic front and rear panels. Front and rear endpapers reproduce the B&O rail system map during the steam years. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. Virtually no signs of wear..... More
Chestertown: Washington College, 1931. First Edition. Signed twice by author: blue ink "Sincerely yours, William R. Howell" under photographic frontispiece; specific inscription on front free endpaper: "To Harry Clifton Byrd, President, University of Maryland, With highest personal regards from the author, William R. Howell." Octavo; xiii + 199pp, including bibliography..... More