Search Results: Railways from Dennis Holzman Antiques

PTJ Publishing Inc, Park Forest, IL, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size), oblong. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Pictorial wraps, 80 pages, extensively illustrated with photos. Corners bumped, first page is detached but present. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 12 oz. Category: Railways; ISBN: 0937658065. ISBN/EAN: 9780937658062. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013004. . 9780937658062

Jerome B. Parmenter, State Printer, Albany, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Brown cloth over boards, gilt-stamping on spine, 1175 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn, staining on text block edges, binding shaken, some foxing scattered throughout, printed label which reads: "Compliments of Charles Hughes, Senator, 12th District. 1878. 1879." pasted to publisher's information on title page. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 8 oz. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015525. .

W.H. Lowdermilk & Co, Washington, D.C, 1918. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free end paper. Brown cloth over boards with gilt stamped leather spine labels, map on front paste down, xix, 525 pages, Errata, Table of Cases Reported, Index. Covers scuffed/lightly worn, corners & spine ends bumped with light wear, interior pages lightly toned, pages 483 two 510 have a tiny tear at fore edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 7 oz. Category: Railways; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 009271. .

Mojave River Valley Museum Association, Barstow, CA, U.S.A, 1980. First Edition. Softcover (Stapled wraps). Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Stapled pictorial wraps, 36 pp. + insides of covers, illustrated in b & w, numerous photographs. Interesting history of railroad operations in and around Barstow, CA, back in the day. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 0 lbs 12 oz. Category: Railways; Books; ISBN: 0918614023. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 003679. .

The Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, Colorado, 1961. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very nice copy, clean, no writing or marks, binding tight. Color illustrated stapled wraps, 32 pp., b & w photographs. a couple of spots of light soil on covers, otherwise excellent. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 0 lbs 3 oz. Category: Railways; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 006306. .

The Elma Press, Elma, NY, 1971. Third Printing. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 11" X 8 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Illustrated wraps, 140 pages, extensively illustrated in black and white. Wraps lightly rubbed, a bit of a musty smell. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 3 oz. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015655. .

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1997. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, 476 pages, Bibliography, Index, extensively illustrated in black and white. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Pictorial dust jacket bumped at corners and spine ends, has some discoloration. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 12 oz. Category: Railways; ISBN: 0815604688. ISBN/EAN: 9780815604686. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013610. . 9780815604686

Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Blue cloth over boards, xi, 212 pages, frontispiece portrait of Corning, Index, Bibliography. "Creator and first president of the New York Central Railroad, Erastus Corning was one of the outstanding American businessman of the mid-nineteenth century. Merchant and manufacturer, railroad promoter, land speculator, financier, and politician, he built a fortune from nothing to eight million dollars. In her skillfully written biographical study, Professor Neu tells the story of this man's varied and highly successful career, and in telling, traces the pattern of domestic mercantile activity in the early and middle years of the past century." Corners and spine ends bumped, top edge of text block lightly foxed. In an… Read More

Interurban Press, Glendale, CA, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Size: Rectangular 4to. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Vol. 2 of the Feather River Route. Dark green paper over boards, photos on end papers, 304 pages, Index to both volumes, Bibliography, Addendum to train symbols, Errata, locomotion distribution roster, system map; extensively illustrated with b & w and color photographs. In a color pictorial dust jacket with very light scuffing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 15 oz. Category: Railways; Books; ISBN: 0870461036. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 006070. .

David McKay, Publisher, Philadelphia, 1900. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. "A Remedy for every conceivable breakdown or disorder that may occur to a locomotive." Gilt stamped black cloth with a locomotive and tender pictured in gilt on front cover, 119 pp. This copy has seen some use. Covers are soiled, corners and spine ends bumped with fraying, back hinge is cracked so the back cover is pulling away from spine, front spine cracked. With the exception of just a couple of smudges, the interior is clean, and the text block is still tight. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 8 oz. Category: Railways; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 004018. .

The New York Air Brake Company, New York, 1951. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Stapled b & w pictorial wraps, viii + 33 pp. (one side of page only), graphs; a paper presented March 2, 1951 at M.I.T. by L.K. Sillcox, then Executive Vice-President of the New York Air Brake Company. Highly technical, presented when diesel-electric engines were considered new technology and addresses braking issues for both steam locomotives and diesel engines. Wraps are soiled, stain at foot of spine, back lower corner of wrap torn off, last page and back wrap have long crease at lower corner. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 8 oz. Category: Railways; Science & Technology; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 005587. .

White Pass and Yukon Route, None Stated, 1929. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 16mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No date, but World Cat puts this at 1929. Landscape 16mo, b & w pictorial side-stapled paper wraps, 55 pages, illustrated with b & w photos, time tables, descriptions of points of interest on the route, cover illustration is of the Steamer White Horse. Covers soiled from handling, corners have small creases. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 0 oz. Category: Travel & Places; Railways. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 010619. .

Chartwell Books, Inc, Edison, New Jersey, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Rectangular 4to. 445 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's embossed name stamp on front free endpaper. All edges gilt - bright, rich condition. This edition beautifully bound by The Easton Press, gilt stamped and decorated dark blue (or black) leather over boards with a color paste down picture of a locomotive on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker, fabric endpapers, Index, extensively illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. This book would be gift quality were it not for an embossed name stamp near the top corner of the front free endpaper. This is a heavy book and may require extra shipping charges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 8 lbs 0 oz.… Read More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 14" x 10 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped green cloth over boards, 154 pages, extensively illustrated in black and white. Corners and spine ends worn, a 1 1/2" piece of spine cloth missing near head of spine, some staining and rubbing on boards. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 13 oz. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015588. . This book is heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Second printing of the First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Color illustrated wraps, 117 pages, Index, foldout "Railroad Map of Kansas-1920s" tipped in back, 120 illustrations, including architectural drawings. "From the ornate to the humble, railroad depots have served as centers of community activity and a link to the outside world. The depots' functions and architectural styles made them distinctive across the Kansas landscape. Their history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the focus of "Kansas Depots". Author H. Roger Grant reminds us of the time when people and freight were dependent on rail transportation, when the depot was the bustling hub of the community, and when whistle stops, troop trains,… Read More

The Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, Canada, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Matthews, Geoffrey [Cartography]. Size: Folio. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact but boards sprung/bowed. Black cloth over boards with black-and-white photographic paste down on front cover, 12 1/2" x 16 1/2", 238 oversize pages (ix, [1], 228 pages), thirty-nine full-page color maps, 560 archival and contemporary photographs, maps and drawings, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index of Railways and Train Ferries, Index of Canals, Index of Portage Railways, Index to the Text. Covers lightly scuffed, but the principal defect of this volume is that the boards are bowed/sprung, most likely from improper storage (not moisture). Includes the original advertising sleeve attached to the back cover. "Over twenty years in the making, this book will prove to be a… Read More

Purple Mountain Press, Ltd, Fleischmanns, NY, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover . Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Glossy orange paper over boards with color illustration on front cover and black-and-white illustration on back cover, no dust jacket as issued, 166 pages, Index, Bibliography, Notes, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Spine sunned. "As the first book ever to be published on the Wallkill Valley Railroad, 'Listen to the Whistle' tells the story of a gallant little railroad that connected Orange and Ulster Counties, New York, and aspired to be part of a major trunk line reaching for metropolitan New York all the way to Albany. A human more than technological story, it tells not only of hissing steam engines but also of trainmen high in their cabs, farmers shipping milk and fruit, children… Read More

University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1993. Edition Unstated. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. The illustrated wraps, XIV, 131 pages, Index, Notes, Selected Bibliography, extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs and floor plans. "This well researched volume examines the American railroad depot in social and architectural terms, aspects which usually go on remarked. After differentiating between depots, which were single buildings, and stations, which were a collection of structures, H. Roger Grant traces depots from their beginning as existing trackside hotels, stores, or residences to highly specialized buildings developed by individual railroads for their particular needs." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 12 oz. Category: Railways; Books; ISBN: 0877455880. Pictures of this item not already displayed… Read More

Railfare Enterprises Limited, Montreal, Canada, 1972. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Size: Rectangular 4to. Gold gilt stamped paper over boards, pastedowns on endpapers, 112 pp., 128 rare photographs, 17 other illustrations ilcluding sketches, covers two dozen different railway systems (includes mileage, chronological and geographical facts, locomotive information about each), fosters, gradient profiles, maps, and more. "Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada is a 'survey course' about one of the most interesting chapters in Canadian railway history." Bumped lightly at head of spine; covers have a slight bowed and pages are slightly "rippled" as if exposed to moisture, but there is no other indication - no odor, no stains etc.; otherwise, the text is clean and unmarked, no writing or notations; binding is sound. In a price-clipped color illustrated dustjacket that is lightly soiled, some chipping at corners and spine ends, short tear at bottom back edge.… Read More

National Publishing Company, Boston, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dark green (or black?) pebbled cloth over boards with elaborate gilt stamped printing and decoration on front, opens up to reveal a linen backed paper color map that is 41 3/4 " x 46"; includes a List of All Steam Railroads in New York State and a List of Steamship Lines from New York, Jersey City and Hoboken. Covers scuffed, bumped at corners, map has a few wear spots where fold lines intersect. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 11 oz. Category: Geography & Maps; Books; Railways. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008969. .