The Wright Brothers by Tom D. Crouch & Peter The Wright Brothers by Tom D. Crouch & Peter L Jakab, published by National Geographic/Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2003, soft bound, 240pp. Book is in good+ condition with minor wear to the cover edges.

 

The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways by Hamilton Ellis, published by Hamlyn. Fifth impression, 1973, hard cover, black and white and color illustrations, 591 pp. In good condition, it is a little dusty, loose binding, One page has some light staining due to an old piece of newspaper being used as a bookmarks and has some wear on the edges of the red cloth binding. Sans DJ.

 

The American Railway It's Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke, John Bogart, M.N. Forney, E.P. Alexander, H.G. Prout, Horace Porter, Theodore Voorhees, Benjamin Norton, Arthur T. Hadley, Thomas L. James, Charles Francis Adams and B.B. Adams, Jr.

Hard bound, illustrated throughout, published by Arno Press, 1976, 456 pp, in good condition. Light cover soiling, sans DJ.

This book was first published in 1888 and reprinted in 1897. This is a re-issue done in 1976
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Yonder Comes The Train by Lance Phillips The Story of the Iron Horse & Some of the Roads it Travelled. Large format, published by A.S. Barnes & Company. 395 pages, black and white photography, in good condition. The DJ is tatty and the book has some fading caused by sunlight on the top edge of the binding.


 

The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact & Symbol Hard cover by Alan Trachtenberg, published by Oxford University Press, 1965, 182 pp. Frontice piece is a color photo of the oil by Joseph Stella titled Brooklyn Bridge. The book is in excellent condition, pages very lightly yellowed and contains the Diebold library stamp on both front and back endpapers. DJ is tatty.


This book was part of the private library of John Diebold.

 

Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915-1932 A signed first edition of Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915-1932 by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. The book is inscribed and signed by Frank Ernest Hill. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 714pp, in very good+ condition. Sans DJ.