NORTH AMERICAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVES: THE MOUNTAINS by FARRELL, Jack, and Mike Pearsall - 1977

Edmonds, Wash.: Pacific Fast Mail, 1977. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. VG+ Condition. Small tear at spine of DJ. 381 p. : ill. (some col. ); 22 x 29 cm. North American steam locomotives. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. 381.

Edmonds, WA: Pacific Fast Mail, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Oblong. Red cloth hard covers with gilt design and lettering, in dust jacket and slipcase. Oblong format. Profusely illustrated. Numerous fold-outs, flat and neat. Owner's stamp inside front cover, hidden by jacket flap. Lightest edge wear to dust jacket. Illustrated slipcase bright; rubbed on one end, otherwise also near fine. Roster of locomotives, specifications, bibliography. A clean, tight, sound and handsome copy, very neat. 381pp..

Edmonds, Washington: Pacific Fast Mail, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket and Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Mike Pearsall. Oblong 4to. Pp. [2], 3-381. Richly illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photo reproductions, with many in fold-out format. Bibliography. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Bound in bright red cloth with gilt locomotive stamped on front board, gilt lettering on spine. In the color-illustrated dust jacket, price of $29.50 intact on front flap. The slipcase shows just a trifle edge-wear. Signed by Pearsall on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a 1972 reprint of the Great Northern "Time Tables and Equipment" brochure, that includes menus, as well as an original 1938 promotional announcement from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company releasing "Attractive Low Fares For Your Vacation This Summer" (please see last photo). A lavish book production with little expense spared in glorifying the laborious effort of mountain locomotives. As the first… Read More

Edmonds, WA: Pacific Fast Mail/PFM, 1977. First edition, first printing . Oblong hardcover. Mike Pearsall. The Mountain Type Locomotive, more than any other, fostered modern steam railroading in North America. 381 pages of photographs and text of 4-8-2 Mountain Type Locomotives of the major railroads. Two page roster of the 2201 locomotives built. Dust jacket plus several interior color illustrations by Mike Pearsall. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with one tiny closed tear, in fine example of the publisher's pictorial slipcase. A very handsome copy.

Washington: Pacific Fast Mail. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardback. Cover Torn in Corner .