CABLE CAR DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO (Revised Edition)

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Bent corners to last page from poor handling. Illustrated endpapers: Nob Hill & cable lines. First published 1940 and Revised 1944; this is the overall 8th Printing of 1946. Story of San Francisco's cable cars illustrated with drawings and archival photographs.10 chapters: I, San Francisco of the 'Seventies; II, The Horsecar Period; III, Andrew S. Hallidie: The Start of the Clay Street Hill Railway Company; IV, Leland Stanford: The Beginning the California Street Cable Railroad Company; V, Antoine Borel: The Cable Car During the 'Eighties; VI, Nob Hill Homes in the 'Eighties; VII, Chinatown & the Cable Cars; VIII,James B. Stetson: The Cable Car Comes of Age; IX, James W. Harris: The Cable Car Reaches Maturity; and, X, Fading Out, followed by appendices. Fine copy less dust jacket.