Nothing Like It In The World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. B&W illustrations and photos. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
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Travels with Puff : A Gentle Game of Life and Death
Reno, NV: Nice Tiger, 2013. Full color photographs by Dan Nickens. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Buildings and Structures of American Railroads, A Reference Book for Railroad Managers, Superintendents, Master Mechanics, Engineers, Architects, and Students.
John Wiley & Sons, 1907. First edition, second thousand. Blue cloth, no dust jacket.
Wooden Walls in Action
London: Halton & Company Limited, 1951. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Report on the Construction of a Railway from Puerto Berrio to Barbosa (State of Antioquia [Columbia]).
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1878. First edition, first printing. Pebble grained brown cloth titled in gilt. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Includes material on the peoples, geography, geology, climate and resources of Antioquia as well as financial, construction and maintenance data.
Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing : The Story Behind the Stealth Bomber.
Paragon House, 1988. Later printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Great American Railroad War : How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
20 Hrs. 40 Min., Our Flight in the Friendship : The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. with 61 Illustrations. First trade edition, first printing. Publisher's maroon cloth, titled in gilt, top edge stain yellow, lacking scarce original dust jacket. 314pp. 8.25" x 5.75" "THE RIGHT SORT OF GIRL" In 1927, the world was still engrossed in the autobiographical account.....
The Fun of It : Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. With 31 illustrations. First edition, first printing. Publisher's brown cloth, titled in white, in pictorial dust jacket ($2.50) with phonographic record in publisher's pouch on rear pastedown. 218, [4] pp. 8.25" x 5.5." SIGNED BY THE QUEEN OF THE SKIES Famed aviator.....
The Fun of It : Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1932 [1947]. Later edition. Publisher's sky blue cloth, in dust jacket). 218pp. THE QUEEN OF THE SKIES Famed aviator Amelia Earhart shares her origin story of how she began to fly in this her second book, The Fun of It. She proofed the.....
Solo : My Adventures in the Air
Algonquin, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Faster, Higher, Farther : The Volkswagen Scandal.
W.W. Norton, 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Ingenious : A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America.
Crown, 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
The Railroad Artistry of Howard Fogg
San Rafael, CA: Cedso Publishing Company, 1999. Color paintings by Howard Fogg. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Hitler's Miracle Weapons : Secret Nuclear Weapons of the Third Reich and Their Carrier Systems: Volume 1, The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.
Helion & company, 2003. First U.K. edition, first printing. Illustrated glazed boards.
Ultimate Voyage : A Book of Five Mariners
Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1998. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Flying Cars : The True Story
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The German Fighter Units Over Russia.
Schiffer, 1990. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. With the signatures of ten Luftwaffe aviators on an Iron Cross signature card laid in.
Motorcycles of the Wehrmacht : A Photo Chronicle (German Vehicles in World War II)
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1994. First printing thus. Glazed Illustrated boards. Translated from the German by Dr. Edward Force. Originally published under the title, Krader der Wehrmacht.
The Kite Route : Story of the Denver & Interurban Railroad.
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing, 1986. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Valley Division Vignettes: Santa Fe.
Valley Rail Press, 1983. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Fly by Wire : The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
"We"
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Black and white illustrations. Later printing. Publisher's full red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, teg.
The Impossible Collection of Cars : The 100 Most Exceptional Automobiles of the Twentieth Century
New York: Assouline, 2011. Later printing. Elegantly bound in black rubber, stamped in red and white, housed in matching black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate. As is often the case with Assouline, this collection is produced with nothing but the highest level of extravagance. From the 1903.....
Maritime America : Art and Artifacts from America's Great Nautical Collections.
Balsam Press, 1988. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.