Search Results: Railway Workers from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Hollidaysburg, PA: L.G. Plank, 1940. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's maroon staplebound card wrappers lettered in black; 97pp. Textblock slightly toned, minor rubbing along spine, else Fine.

[Pittsburgh?]: Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company, 1946. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's cloth tape-backed stiff card wrappers; iv,3-61pp. Faint vertical crease to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Agreement effective as of October 15, 1946, covering passenger service, freight service, yard service, hostler helper service, and other particulars of employment with the Company.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Edition. Thick octavo (22cm.); original cloth in decorative dust jacket; xviii,398pp.; 8 leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine toned with a couple of faint blue pencil lines, tiny loss to spine foot, 1-inch closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel; still, Fine in a Very Good copy of the rather scarce jacket. Covers "ten great struggles," including the Haymarket bombing of 1887, the Pullman strike of 1894, and the Lawrence strike of 1912. SEIDMAN Y7.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original green pictorial cloth embossed in dark green, brown glazed endpapers; 319pp. Minor external soil and rubbing; Very Good or better. Blanck notes two states of the text, one with the statement "The End" following text, the other without, but asserts no priority. Ours is the former. An early labor novel, a fictional account of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Hay, in addition to being a some-time novelist, was Abraham Lincoln's personal secretary and later U.S. Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. BAL 7762; BLAKE, p. 212-3; WRIGHT III 2608.

Buenos Aires: Casa Social Victoria 1928-38, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 575pp. Text paper browned but not fragile; still a clean, tight VG copy, remarkably well-preserved given the cheap components of manufacture. Jubilee Anniversary volume for the Argentinian Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Illustrated throughout with portraits and halftone illustrations. OCLC notes only the 2012 reprint.

Scranton: [Samuel C. Logan], 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original decorative tan cloth embossed in gilt, floral endpapers; viii,355pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece inscribed and signed in facsimile, 9 leaves of photographic illustrations, maps in text. Very slightly ex-Lacka. Historical Society with their ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaf and tiny paper remnent at spine foot, some wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, shallow loss at spine crown, else Near Very Good. History of Scranton after the local events of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, during which a group of more than 200 vigilantes fired on a crowd of unarmed striking miners, killing three and leading to the city's being placed under martial law.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],352pp. A few pinpoint rubs to spine ends, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), with a shallow loss to crown, a few small nicks and closed tears. Attractive copy of Saxton's second book, which "has as its background the city of Chicago and the yards of one of the midcontinent railroads from the year 1912 to the outbreak of World War II. The rather complex web of lives and events, spun out within an arbitrarily shifting time sequence, is primarily centered on the relationship between Communist railroad worker, Dave Spaas, and his wife Stephanie, although considerable attention ih the first half of the book is also given to Dave's Negro comrade, Pledger McAdams, whose gradula acceptance of white men and of Communism is effectively handled" (Rideout, p.268). HANNA 3127.

Portland, ME: Berry Printer, 1877. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial stitched self-wrappers; 13pp. Wrappers rather brittle with a few tiny shallow losses, else Very Good. Satirical fable regarding the railroad industry. WILLIAMSON (Maine) I 835.

London: Ward and Lock, n.d., ca. 1870s. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 160pp.; illus., text in double columns. Title page (serving as upper cover) slightly chipped, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking original wrappers. Diverse collection of anecdotes, advice, and jokes for the railroad passenger, covering such topics as the correct way of eating olives ("it being /comme il faut/ to use the fingers for that purpose," (p. 27)); and the statistics of bachelorism ("Bachelors henpecked by their housekeepers, 3185; pestered by legacy-hunting relatives, 1796; devoured by ennui and selfish cares, 2064...happy, none," (p. 118)).

Chicago: National Sound Money League, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); disbound; 14pp. Previously removed from sammelband with remnants of spine and rear free endpaper still present, some chipping and short closed tears to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good and sound. Published as "National Sound Money League Pamphlet L." Address originally delivered by Robinson, editor of the "Railway Age," at the National Currency Convention in Omaha. The Populist NSML was formed two years prior with the aim to continue "the efforts made during [William Jennings Bryan's] presidential campaign of 1896 for national honor and sound money, and the education of people to a realization of the necessity for maintaining the gold standard" (cf. James Livingston, "Origins of the Federal Reserve System" (1989), p. 104). OCLC locates two copies of this edition as of June, 2019, at U. Denver and Ohio History Connection.

[Washington?], 1852. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); disbound; 59pp.; large folding map bound in rear. Map a bit creased from mis-folds, one panel (serving as rear wrapper) toned, else a Very Good, fresh copy. At head of title: 32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 49. Results of a survey conducted in 1850 and 1851 led by Captain Joshua Barney of the United States Topographical Corps of Engineers for a rail line running from St. Louis to a point on the Arkansas River near Little Rock. The result was the Mississippi, Ouachita, and Red River Railroad, the first incorporated railroad in Arkansas. HOWES B-158 (errouneously giving the date 1853).

Cleveland: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1934. Quarto. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp1-80; illus. Mild wear to covers; binding crease to second half of text; small de-accession stamp (Mooney Papers, Bancroft Library); Very Good. Official monthly organ of the B of LE. Includes articles on railroad lore, technical matters, and labor and fraternal news.

Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt, [1991]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. Exhibition catalog of the German-American artist's train paintings and sketches. Text entirely in German. Compliment card from the American gallery Achim Moeller Fine Art, in which this show was also exhibited.

Norwich, CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm); contemporary tan calf; red and dark brown morocco spine labels; all edges marbled; xxxvi, 715pp, frontispiece. Amateur repairs to backstrip and textblock preliminaries. Original leather shows some scratches, abrasions and wear; extremities rubbed with material loss. Minor soiling and foxing throughout textblock; over 350 b/w text-illustrations and maps. Overall Very Good, sound. It would seem a sign of the times that we might now describe some of the "Marvels" detailed in this book as the "Old West". However, in 1887, the lands west of the Missouri still held the promise of adventure and discovery, as well as opportunity. This book, containing six volumes, covers the marvels of nature, race, enterprise, mining, stock-raising, and agriculture. While fascinating and evocative (including a breathtakingly inaccurate account of the Donner Party incident), it is unfortunately imbued with the Anglo-Saxon supremacist… Read More

[Philadelphia: Joseph V. Baker Associates], 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's orange pictorial staplebound wrappers; 16pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of toning, else Fine. Rail travel magazine published by the first black-owned public relations firm Joseph V. Baker Associates, this issue primarily devoted to New York and the World's Fair. Short-lived and uncommon, OCLC notes five institutional holdings as of May, 2020.

Pottsville, PA: Order of Railway Conductors, 1910. Original lithograph certificate (57.75x35.75cm.) printed in black on heavy cream stock, accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored, with mounted original albumen photographic portrait lozenge (8cm in diameter). Stock has suffered some fairly heavy frame burn to extremities and verso (blank), along with some brief glue residue and paper flaws from where the stock was previously mounted (not affecting image or text). Still, overall Very Good, the colors and photograph vibrant. Initiation certificate to ORC member William A. Nye of the Pottsville Division No. 416, P&R Ry. (Philadelphia & Reading Railway), Caboose No. 90073, dated July 10, 1910. The head of the certificate shows a lovely red engine steaming past a grassy field, over which is mounted Nye's photographic portrait, though the largest portion of the piece is devoted to an oversized symbol of the ORC, a large circle (23cm in diameter) divided into three equal parts, depicting an… Read More

New York: League for Industrial Democracy (L.I.D.), 1936. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wraps; 38pp. Toning and light soil to covers; internally fine. A proposal for public ownership of the railroad utilities.

Cleveland: Britton Printing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (24cm.); original full sheep, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, all edges marbled, floral endpapers; [6],1134pp.; illus., text in double column. Some peeling and cracking to leather, extremities scuffed; textblock fine. About Very Good. Complete run for the year 1914 of a monthly published by the Brotherhood. Articles include Arthur Brisbane's "Female Labor and Minimum Wage"; Knud Benson's "The Panama Railroad"; R.H. Newcomb's "American Railroad Company, Porto Rico"; and countless articles on safety and child labor. Poetry and fiction also present.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, [1922]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket printed in dark blue; 332pp. Jacket toned, extremities rather chipped and worn with a number of closed tears, spine crown partially separated but present. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Criticism of the railroad companies by the Socialist co-founded of the NAACP.

N.p.: Travelers Insurance Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 71pp.; insert order blank bound in. Extremities a bit rubbed, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates three copies as of November, 2019, at Cornell, Georgia State, and Appalachian State.