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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Color & b/w Illustrations and Engravings (illustrator). First Edition. Black cloth over brown boards. Series: The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques Size: 4to - over 93/4" - 12" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. B & W Photos, Tables (illustrator). Copyright Date: 1925 Octavo, Stapled Pamphlet, PP.16, B & W Photos, Tables.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. B & W Photos, Tables (illustrator). Stapled Pamphlet Copyright Date: 1926 Octavo, January 1926, PP.16, Very Good, Light Soiling At Cover, B & W Photos, Tables.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Charts, B & W Photos (illustrator). Copyright Date: 1925 Sm QUARTO, 1925-26, PP.15, Stapled PAMPHLET, Charts, B & W Photos.

HC. B&W and color illustrations (illustrator). 224pp ISBN 0070072299 fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. b/w Illustration (illustrator). First Thus. USGS circular #286 In stapled wraps, Light rusting to staples. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 856.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. pp. 856.

Condition: New. pp. 856.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A facsimile reproduction copy from 1977 of a book published in 1880. 4to(8.5 x 11 in.). Very good condition. No dust jacket as issued.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

xvii,508pp. lar.8vo. dw.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. This is a faithful reprint of the 1880 edition published by O.L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers of Chicago. Over-sized hardbound (quarto). No wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. 889 pages, frontis, illustrations, original ¾ leather binding with gilt design and lettering, all edges gilt, minor edge wear and rubbing to edges, inner front hinge cracked. Much on early pioneers, mining, Leadville, Indians Herd 527, Six-Guns 2272, "Contains chapters on the vigilantes and outlaws of Colorado.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 889 pages. Illustrated with steel plate and wood engravings. Has been rebound with covers in excellent condition. Interior very good. (E1).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 713 pp., plates, illus., maps, cloth, nice Herd # 2409 Much on cattle.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated (ca. 1980), facsimile reprint of the 1880 first edition. Green boards with gold titling. Very Good+, no dust jacket. A solid, sound and unmarked copy of this very large volume. 652 pages, plus Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Index (not in original). Red cloth reprint of 1880 O.L. Baskin and Co. Historical Publishers original. Gilt titles. Facsimile frontispiece engravings of Pikes Peak and Arco Smelting Works, Denver drawn by J.M. Bagley. Many engravings of famous pioneers. Usual library stamps, labels, markings and pocket. Spine slightly loose. Page 543 torn. Mild smudges along pages fore-edges with some page edge bumps, yet interior pages generally pristine. Dog ear on pages 152 and 214.

Text of all three letters clear and entire. A well-written and well-informed correspondence relating to 'locomotive matters'. Letter One (14 October 1942): Manuscript. Foolscap, 4 pp. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. 'Knowing, and to some extent, at least, sharing' King's 'interest in loco matters', Pimm informs him that the Ministry of Supply 'have ordered 360 L.M.S. mixed traffics generally like the 227 that AW's [Armstrong Whitworth] bill as their last order'. Pimm's 'chief' has told him 'that lately he met some steel foundrymen & asked one of them if he had got the order for the castings. The man asked, in return, how many tons were there on the 227 A.W.'s "mill". My chief, who was estimator at Scotswood [Armstrong Whitworth headquarters], said 'about 22 tons', and the other man went on, 'well, as these engines there are 4 tons, a pair of driving-wheels & some miscellaneous castings, the trailing drivers are - 17 tons tensile - and the tender wheels were to have been solid C.L., chilled on the tread'. Pimm comments on this statement, and on the news of another order. Paragraph on 'two Scotswood men'. Two paragraphs discussing 'the future of steam on railways' and whether 'in this Country the diesel-electric can compete with it for main line & passenger work' ('the prime cost of diesel electrics is higher than its advocates admit, the maintenance is higher and the cost of spares is ruinous'). Full-page discussion of valve-gears. Recounts an anecdote relating to 'Blacklock, chief loco technical man at Scotswood'. Ends by discussing the relative merits of Pacifics ('the best engines the L.N.E.R. had for that district, bar none') and Atlantics ('they won't steam on Scotch coal'). Letter Two (4 November 1942). Typewritten. Foolscap, 3 pp. Good, though lightly creased and aged. Lengthy and informed discussion of 'the locomotive building firms'. Armstrong Whitworth 'had a plant much less antiquated than the rest of the plants in the country. It was bought after the last war, though lately for want of funds it was not renewed it was certainly the least obsolete of all'. Explains, 'in confidence', how the 'Loco. builders [.] kept going before the war': the smaller firms 'tendered for everything, 200 ton engines for Australia, and such like. The large firms protested, pointing out that the small firm couldn't execute the order and therefore shouldn't tender, but the small firm took up an attitude of offended dignity, saying how do you know what we can and cannot do. You don't want anybody to expand, you would keep all the best things for youself. So they continued to tender and to draw their share.' Comments on 'Gresley Pacifics' and 'the old S.W. engine men'. Letter Three (18 December 1942): Manuscript. 8vo, 2 pp. 'Can you not ease off a little. I know another H. G. officer, mang. Director of a firm, who I am sure is doing far too much, but he is so far in, so to speak, that he can't withdraw, or feels that he can't.' Gives reasons for his distrust of 'railway building costs'.