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Published by Popular Publications, Chicago, IL, 1940
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Pages tanned with age but clean. A few have a bent or creased corner. "S" written in the upper left corner of the front cover. A little peeling of the spine at top and bottom edges. Front and back covers lightly soiled. A little wear to the edges of the front cover including one 3/4" tear, a few tiny tears or chips. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Tejachapi" (Illustrated Feature) by Charles W. Tyler and E.M. Kennedy; "Sweden's Railways" (Illustrated Feature); "Railroad Magazine Index for 1948"; "Each in His Time" (True Tales) by William F. Knapke; "Some Had Luck" (True Tales) by Edmund E. Pugsley; "Reminder of the Past" (True Tales) by Arthur C. Mack; "Mountain Standard Time (Part II)" (Fiction) by Harry Bedwell; "Nineteen Forty-Nine" (Poem) (Short Hauls) by Charles D. Dulin; "Lost Engine, Lost Train, Lost Railroad" (Short Hauls) by Paul Hoysradt; "Along the Iron Pike" (Short Hauls) by Joe Easley; "Locomotives of the Monon" (Short Hauls); "Locomotive of the Month (Argentine Railway Diesels)" (Short Hauls); "Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. (No. 6)" by Carl Fallberg; "Light of the Lantern (Wheel Sliding); "Electric Lines (Feature Article Index)"; "Out of the Car Shops (Missouri Pacific Eagles)"; "On the Spot (Switch Shanty Gossip)"; and "Railroad Camera Club (Switch List, Model Trading Post)".
Published by Popular Publications, Kokomo, IN, 1950
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Pages are tanned. Most pages are otherwise clean, unmarked and undamaged. A few pages have a tiny tear or two along the edges. Some pages have a mildly bent or creased corner tip. Exterior covers are lightly soiled. The back cover has a few chips and tears in the edges, and a rough tan surface--I don't know what caused it. There are a couple of small tears at the top of the spine. The magazine will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Recipe for a Class I Railroad" by John A. Thompson; "China Interlude" by Jesse D. Cope; "Shortline to Nowhere" by Othmar Tabische; "True Tales: Frozen Stiff" by Joe Fountain; "True Tales: Traveling Auditor (Part I)" by Samuel James; "True Tales: While the Angel Watched" by William F. Knapke; "Fiction: Ticket to Destruction" by E.S. Dellinger; "Short Hauls: Incidentally" by Frank Herold; "Short Hauls: Vatican City Railway"; "Short Hauls: Along the Iron Pike" by Joe Easley; "Short Hauls: Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. (No. 27)" by Carl Fallberg; plus "Light of the Lantern (ET Brake Equipment)"; "Model Railroad (P&R's Camelback, Part I)"; "Electric Lines (Citizen's Traction Co., Part I, Slick)"; "On the Spot (Switch Shanty Gossip)"; and "Railroad Camera Club (Switch List, Model Trading Post)".
Published by The Frank A. Munsey Company, New York, NY, 1940
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Binding is secure. Pages toned but clean. Small tear to the fore-edge of some pages. "53/77" in pencil on the front cover. Very little soiling to exterior. Some wear to edges of covers including a few small chips or tears. In better shape than most of copies I've seen of Railroad Magazine from this era. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "The C&O" painting by Aurion M. Proctor; "My Narrow-Gage Album" (Illustrated Feature) by Lewis R. Lathrop; "Timing the Fast Ones (The Crusader)" (Illustrated Feature) by E. L. Thompson; "Back in the Days (Spring Fever)" (Illustrated Features) by Harry C. Temple; "Seven-Eighths of a Mile" (Illustrated Feature) by Douglas S. Dales; "Locomotives of the New York Central System (Part I) (Illustrated Features); "Coal 59 Cents a Ton" (Illustrated Features); "Along the Iron Pike" (Illustrated Features) by Joseph Easley; "On the High Iron" (Illustrated Features) by John F. Byers; "Code of the Boomer (An Eddie Sand Novelet)" (Fiction) by Harry Bedwell; "Engine Dispatcher" (Fiction) by William Colfer; "Galveston Flood" (True Tales of the Rails) by A. R. Strong; "Down the Branch" (True Tales of the Rails) by W. F. Knapke; "Rock Island Rush" (True Tales of the Rails) by Pat Kennedy; "Sandhouse Verse"; "Model Railroading"; "Railfan Activities"; "By the Light of the Lantern"; "On the Spot"; and "Railroad Camera Club".
Published by Popular Publications, Chicago, IL, 1947
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Clean inside and out. Pages tanned. Some pages have a bent corner tip. Light wear and a few tiny (<1/4") chips and tears to edges of covers. Very little wear otherwise. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Canada Rolls Its Own" (Illustrated Feature) by William L. Rohde; "City of New Orleans" (Photo Story); "Pennsy's Steel Thunderbolts" (Illustrated Feature) by Frank Clodfelter; "The Skunk" (Illustrated Feature) by Virginia Coontz; "Running Blind" (True Tales) by William J. Parry; "The Silent Land" (True Tales) by William F. Knapke; "Uncle Nat" (True Tales) by J. W. Hinds; "Experiences 'Way Back" (True Tales) by Edwin Purkess; "Boss of Seventeen" (Fiction) by Alvin N. Scism; "Freedom Train" (Short Hauls) by Henry B. Comstock; "Along the Iron Pike" by Joe Earley; "Locomotive of the Month (PRR's Modified T-1 Class)" (Short Hauls); "Locomotives of the Canadian National (Part II)" (Short Hauls); "Light of the Lantern" (Injector Economy); "Electric Lines (Interurban Railway & Terminal)"; "On the Spot (Switch-Shanty Gossip)";n and "Railroad Camera Club (Switch List, Model Trading Post)".
Published by Golden West Books, 1968
ISBN 10: 0870950118ISBN 13: 9780870950117
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
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Published by Golden West Books, 1987
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book.
Published by San Marino,CA: Golden West Books 1968, 1968
237 pgs., Approx. 6" x 8 3/4", Orange cloth with black title on spine, very light wear, b/w caboose illus. endpapers, contents clean & tight with numerous b/w photos & illus., VG.
Published by San Marino, California Golden West Books, 1979
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 5th or later Edition. Seventh printing. 237 pages. Profusely illustrated. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. (R5).
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, CA, 1968
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 237 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with more than 165 photographs. Fine in crisp but lightly edgeworn dust jacket. An illustrated history of the railroad caboose car, which got its name from the nautical world as a term for an on-deck galley where cooking was done. This indeed was its first use in 19th century railroading.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, CA, 1979
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Seventh printing. The caboose has undergone many changes in 100 years. 237 pages with photographs, a few diagrams and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. Book.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, California, 1968
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. B/W Photo illustrations (illustrator). Bright orange cloth binding with black author, title and publisher on spine. Illustrated front and back end papers. 237pp. Indexed. Content clean, bright and sound. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Published by Golden West Books, 1979
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is near fine inside and out. 7th printing. Unclipped jacket good with some shelf wear, light staining, Piece of tape on upper outer spine of jacket.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino Ca, 1968
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 237 Pp. Back Boards, Gilt. First Printing, 1968. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $11.95 On Publisher's Label.
Published by Railroad Magazine, 1952
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Magazine. Condition: Good+. Many photos; ; 11 pages; Pages are clean but discolored from age.
Published by San Marino. 1968. Golden West Books. 1st.ed., 1968
Seller: The Bookroom, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Clean and tight. Very good in very good dj.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, CA, 1968
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. The caboose has undergone many changes in 100 years. 237 pages with photographs, a few diagrams and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with only a hint of rubbing at the head of the spine panel. Book.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, CA, 1968
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. The caboose has undergone many changes in 100 years. 237 pages with photographs, a few diagrams and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.
Published by Golden West Books, USA, 1968
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Black cloth on boards with gilt titles; thin light ex-bookcover residue to top and bottom edges. Edges: light old foxings. Eps: b/w Caboose Anatomy; faint few only foxings; thin short ex-bookcover residue to top and bottom edges. Clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 237p Dj: faint thin ex-bookcover residue to top and bottom edges otherwise a clean jacket. 2cm closed tear to front bottom edge. Price-cut to head of rear fap.
Published by Golden West Books., San Marino., 1968
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Letter from author laid in. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 237 pps.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, 1968
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Frontis., 237 pp., illus. Foreword by David P. Morgan. Over 165 illustrations. Some mild edgewear to dustjacket, else a fine copy.
Published by Golden West Books, San Marino, California, USA, 1968
Seller: Train World Pty Ltd, North Brighton, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 237 pages b/w photos - dust cover badly chipped torn - Mr. Knapke has given us the ability to go back in time and see what it was really like living and working on a caboose. Not only does he explain the jobs and conditions for the workers, but he includes all aspects of life as a train conductor. The book also includes mysteries, murder and stories of love - all the interesting things that add to the intrigue of life on the railroad. Anyone that wants to know the true tradition of railroading - should definitely read this book.