![El tren de la fantasía [Fantasy Train]. Freddy Camilo Morffe Fuentes](/pictures/thumb/306018_2.jpg?v=1612069357)
24 panels. 5-1/4 by 6 inches closed and unfolding to 63 inches. An edition of 100 copies. A book with a double-sided accordion fold structure. The text is 20 "décima" (ten-line) poems about trains, each printed letterpress on a small sheet of handmade paper and mounted on a sheet printed with.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An interesting glimpse at postal history for coast-to-coast mail in the US before the transcontinental railroad was completed. This report by the Committee on Public Expenditures describes a dispute over the mail contract between the railroad terminus at Cheyenne (now Wyoming, but then part of the Dakota Territory).....
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First Edition. A dictionary of terms related to railroad cars, illustrated with hundreds of illustrations. The book went through many editions into the 20th century and has been the basis of many facsimile editions. The book includes engravings of passenger and freight cars as well as detailed illustrations of many component.....
Price: $750
Second edition. xii, 95 pages. An influential work on the gradual transition to a curve required to keep trains (and later cars) from flying off the route. Such transitions are now commonly called Searles curves. Early editions are uncommon. Flexible leather wallet-style binding, with fold-over flap. Near fine. A nice.....
Price: $50
