Colorado railroad books, trade and signed editions for sale
by Mt. Gothic Tomes and Reliquary, Rare Books and Western Americana. Many
of the following books are in fine to very fine condition.
RAILROAD BOOKS B
FIRST TRADE EDITIONS
Chappell,
Gordon S.; Hauck, Cornelius W.; and, Richardson, Robert W.
THE SOUTH PARK LINE: A Concise History.
Colorado
Rail Annual No. 12. Golden,
Colorado
:
Colorado
Railroad
Museum
, 1974, first edition. Original
green cloth covers, gold print on front cover and spine; 280 pages; fine in near
fine dust jacket. $40.00
Chappell,
Gordon S.; Hauck, Cornelius W.; and, Richardson, Robert W.
COLORADO
RAIL ANNUAL: A Journal of Railroad History in the Rocky Mountain West, Issue
Number Eleven.
Colorado
Rail Annual No. 11. Golden,
Colorado
:
Colorado
Railroad
Museum
, 1973, first edition. Original blue
cloth covers, gold print on front cover and spine; 215 pages; very fine in near
fine dust jacket. $25.00
Clark, Ira G. THEN
CAME THE RAILROADS: The Century from Steam to Diesel in the Southwest.
Norman:
University
of
Oklahoma Press, 1958, first edition, in dust jacket; 336 pages; maps and illustrations.
Book is in its original brown cloth covers, bookplate on front endpaper;
black print and cream background on spine; dust jacket is has
some edge wear, a couple of light stains from tape, and a lightly sunned spine, otherwise, very good condition.
$30.00
COLORADO
RAILROADS AND THE
COLORADO
RAILROAD
MUSEUM
, Illustrated. Prepared and
Published by the
Colorado
Railroad
Museum
, 1961. Original illustrated stiff
wrappers, 32 pages; fine condition. $10.00
Crinkle,
Nym (A.C. Wheeler). THE IRON
TRAIL.
New York
: F.B. Patterson, Publisher, 1876, first edition.
Very good condition, in original tan illustrated wrappers; 46 pages, some
damp-staining on back. $75.00
Dodge,
Major General Grenville M., Chief Engineer Union Pacific Railway, 1866-1870.
HOW WE BUILT THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY and Other Railway Papers and
Addresses. No publisher,
printer, nor date of publication. Original
light green flexible cloth covers; black print on front cover; 171 pages;
illustrations on separate plates. Circa
1910. Condition: very good plus;
some fraying of cloth at top of spine. $90.00
Ehernberger,
James L. and Gschwind, Francis G.
COLORADO
& SOUTHERN: Northern Division.
Callaway
,
Nebraska
: E. & G. Publications, 1966, first edition; Pioneer Printing and Stationery
Co.,
Cheyenne
,
Wyoming
. Book in its original pictorial
boards with black and red print on spine; 64 pages; complete with illustrations
and 2 folded inserts (timetable and promotional for book). Book in fine
condition. $35.00
Engle, Charles M. THE
GALLOPING GOOSE: Story of the unique little train that fought to keep alive
Otto Mears’ narrow gauge railroad in the mountains of
Southwest Colorado
. Larry & Marilyn Pleasant,
Publishers: 1979, 2nd printing, 100th Anniversary.
Original blue illustrated wrappers, fine condition. $10.00
Ferrell, Mallory Hope. THE GILPIN
GOLD TRAM:
Colorado
’ Unique Narrow-Gauge.
Boulder
,
Colorado
: Pruett Publishing Company, 1970, first edition.
Original black boards with gold illustration and print on front cover and
gold print on spine; 112 pages; VERY fine in fine dust jacket. $30.00
Forrest,
Kenton and Albi, Charles. DENVER’S
RAILROADS: the Story of Union Station and the Railroads of Denver.
Golden,
Colorado
:
Colorado
Railroad
Museum
, 1981; first edition; printed by Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder,
Colorado.
Burgundy
cloth covers with gold print on spine; 244 pages; map packet at rear; very fine
in very fine dust jacket. $30.00
Fry, Eleanor. RAILROAD
ACCIDENTS IN
COLORADO.
Pueblo
County
Historical Society, 1982, Star-Journal Publishing Co.
Original aqua printed wrappers; 24 pages; near fine condition. $10.00
Fulton, Robert Lardin.
EPIC OF THE
OVERLAND
: An Account of the Building of The Central and
Union
Pacific Railroad.
Los Angeles: N.A. Kovach, 1954. No 84 of 275
copies. Reprint of
1924 edition, printed by A.M. Robertson,
San Francisco,
California
, with a Sketch of the Life of the Author (Fulton) by Dr. Herbert Wynford Hill
with illustrations and map. (Map is
present, after Page 47) Book is in
its original blue cloth covers with gold print on spine.
Dust jacket is also present. Condition
of book: very good plus to near fine; some light discoloration around edges of
covers. Condition of dust jacket:
very good; some edge-wear. $25.00
Gjevre, John A. CHILI LINE: the
Narrow Rail Trail to Santa Fe: The Story of the narrow gauge Denver and Rio
Grande Western’s Santa Fe Branch, 1880-1941.
Second edition in commemoration the centennial year of the D&RGW,
1871-1971. Signed by author on title
page. Printed by the Rio Grande Sun
Press,
Espanola
,
New Mexico
, 1971,; 100 pages. Yellow
illustrated wrappers; square-bound; very good plus condition. $35.00
Guido,
Francis A. and Wagner, Jack R., editors.
McCLOUD
RIVER
RR GOLD SPIKE SPECIAL. Gold
Spike Edition of The Western Railroader, Volume 18, No. 9 – Issue 189, July
1955. Original printed stiff
wrappers; 40 pages; near fine. $10.00
Harbus, A.B. LOCOMOTIVES
OF THE
DENVER
&
RIO GRANDE. Bulletin No. 77, issued by
the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., Baker Library,
Harvard
Business
School,
Boston,
Massachusetts, July 1949. Original red
illustrated wrappers; 70 pages; illustrated; near fine condition. $35.00
Hauck,
Cornelius W. NARROW GAUGE TO
CENTRAL AND SILVER PLUME, Issue Number Ten.
Colorado
Rail Annual No. 10. Golden,
Colorado:
Colorado
Railroad
Museum, 1972, first edition. Original blue
cloth covers, gold print on front cover and spine; 223 pages; fine in near fine
dust jacket. $25.00
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