Author: SHAW, FREDERIC; FISHER JR., CLEMENT; HARLAN, GEORGE H.
Title: Oil Lamps and Iron Ponies: A Chronicle of the Narrow Gauges
Description: San Francisco: Bay Books Limited, 1949. Hardcover. A stated first edition of a history of California, Washington and Oregon narrow gauge railways. The trio of authors describe the stories of 8 of these lines and the people who organized them, operating in either coastal areas or in mountainous inland areas. With over 50 black & white photos, as well as maps of the routes of the lines. --- In brown paper-covered boards with an image of a pair of oil lamps to cover and cover & spine titling, all in dark brown. Jacket with color W. C. Merritt painting to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with age-toning to endpapers. Poor-only, unclipped jacket ($5.00) with several missing chips and chunks and some dampstains but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (16), 187 pages. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation
Title: Oil Lamps and Iron Ponies: A Chronicle of the Narrow Gauges
Description: San Francisco: Bay Books Limited, 1949. Hardcover. A stated first edition of a history of California, Washington and Oregon narrow gauge railways. The trio of authors describe the stories of 8 of these lines and the people who organized them, operating in either coastal areas or in mountainous inland areas. With over 50 black & white photos, as well as maps of the routes of the lines. --- In brown paper-covered boards with an image of a pair of oil lamps to cover and cover & spine titling, all in dark brown. Jacket with color W. C. Merritt painting to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with age-toning to endpapers. Poor-only, unclipped jacket ($5.00) with several missing chips and chunks and some dampstains but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (16), 187 pages. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation
Price: US$ 29.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86152
- Book number: 86152