Search Results: Transportation from The Owl at the Bridge

Dover, NH, Arcadia, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed. 128 pages, illustrations; 23.5 cm. From horse-drawn omnibus, horse cars, and cable tramways, via trolleys and trackless trolleys to the buses of today, this volume explores the history of getting about in Rhode Island from the Civil War to the creation of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. An album of photographs with caption commentary. Stock#44698/h. Very Good, inscribed by Molloy.

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. [c1973]. Hard Cover. 207 p., index, color photographs throughout; 26 cm. New England; Long Island Sound; Manhattan to the Delaware; the Chesapeake; Carolina capes & islands; Florida. Color pictorial dj; minor wear; VG. 39408 NS.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1929. One [age printed form. Filled in to indicate arrival of two crates of tulip stands to Beaver Falls, PA. Stock# 39,904. Good+

[Montreal, Canadian National Railways, 1959]. 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (3" x 5"). Filled in for Ste Anne station, train no. 10, Engine 454, conductor Kaine, Engineman Messer. Arrived 7:54 AM, left 7:55. Stock#40954a. VG. Price includes 1st class postage in US.

[Scranton, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co.] 1920s?. One sheet, 12.5 x 17 cm. (5" x 7"). "The Anthracite Line." "Copies will be made for each Conductor, Engineman and Operator or Dispatcher." Stock#40864. Good+. Price includes first-class postage.

[Scranton, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co.] 1950s?. 7 x 16 cm. (3" x 6 1/2"). The Lackawanna was known as "The Anthracite Line." Punched ticket for 60 cents. Stock# 40864e. Good+. Price includes first-class postage.

N.Y., Dover, c.1972.. Soft Cover. xvi, 147 p. 21.5 x 28.5 cm. An original Dover featuring engravings from trade mgazines, particularly during the post-Civil War era. Stock# 30,250. Vg/ wrappers

[Buffalo, Erie RR, 19??]. 9 x 2.5 cm. (3 1/2" x 1"). "Keep this in sight." Founded in 1832, based in Buffalo, the Erie ran between the banks of the Hudson across from New York to Buffalo. Unpunched. Faded pink. Price includes first-class postage. Stock#40953a.

NY, Dover, 1988. Soft Cover. Six sheets with four post cards per sheet; 30.5 cm. Ships include Titanic, Queen Mary, Ile de France, Normandie, Andrea Doria, Leonardo da Vinci and 18 others in handsome photographs. ISBN (10): 0486258696. Stock#L-337. Vg / soft cover.

Keene,NH, Cheshire Railroad Company, 1865. 7 x 17 cm. ( 2 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches). Printed form, filled out in ink dated Sept 30, 1863 for carrying three barrels of crackers from Athol Mfg. to Manchester Station. Stock# 40,865. Vg.

[Springfield, Missouri, Frisco, 195??]. 9 x 2.5 cm. (3 1/2" x 1"). Unpunched; VG. Stock#40953b. Price includes first-class postage.

New York, Dover, 1972. Soft Cover. 352 p., 32 illus. (8 leaves of plates), 21.5 cm. First pub. 1957 as Ships of the Sky. Includes a detailed account of the burning of the Hindenburg. Stock# 30,965. Vg/ wrappers

Philadelphia, Chilton, c1960. Hard Cover. 116 p., illus.; 20.5 cm. Chilton's modern boating guide series 481. Good+, some slight high-school-library markings/ no dj. Stock#39306.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1929. One page, two paragraph typed letter on PRR Letterhead, 20 July, 1929 re claim for lost chairs to Beaver Falls, PA. Stock# 39,903. Vg

Denver, RGS RR, 1896. 1 page. 5 lines. 29 x 20.5 cm. (11 x 8 inches) Edward T. Jeffery, president of the The Rio Grande Southern Railroad, to W.D. Lee, superintendent of said RR, approves upholstering Coach No. 22. Stock# 40,867. Good+, frayed along edges

NY, Harcourt, Brace [1938]. Hard Cover. xii, 275 p. maps, 21 cm. 3d printing, October, 1938. "The story of a survey flight around the North Atlantic Ocean in 1933." Stock# 30,969. Vg, red boards/ no dj.

New York, NY : Lyons Press [c1956, 1984]. Soft Cover. ix, 240 p., map, 22.5 cm. "In [this] book he participated in writing, he claimed that he and six others escaped [from a Siberian prison] and walked over 4000 miles south, through the Gobi desert, and over the Himalayas in winter to India in 1942. In 2006, the BBC released a report based on records from the former Soviet Union including some written by Rawicz himself that show that Rawicz was pardoned as a part of a general release of Poles from the Soviet Union in 1942, was afterward transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran and that his escape to India never occurred." Stock# 44,310. Vg, former owner's label / soft cover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1927. Three pieces. 1) exchange ticket from West Philadelphia to Broad Street Station, unpunched 1929-1934; 2.) passenger's check; punched for June 23; and 3.)card schedule for Bristol, PA line, Sept. 1927. Stock# 39,905. Good+

Ship's press, 1954. Soft Cover. One page in folded form, 25 cm. Cover: "de Haar Castle 1265". Christmas breakfast on the high seas 50 years ago offered haddock, kippered snacks, corned oxtongue. Stock# 37,338. Vg/ paper.

New York Central Rail Road, 1956. 6 x 6 cm. (2 1/2" x 2 1/2"). Ticket stub filled in with ink. Account is the Colorado & South. Ticket from Denver to Colorado Springs. Stamped on back Jul 30 1956. Stock#40954b. Good+. Price includes 1st class postage in US.