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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 120 pp. As the author wrote in his preface in May of 1940, from his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts, "White sails no longer dot the horizon on all our coasts where only twenty-five years ago they formed an almost never-ending..... More
[n. p.]: [n. d.]. Wraps. Octavo size, 55 pp., in German. "SS Amerika" was a German ship launched in 1905; it was a large passenger liner, and at the outset of World War I, it remained at the harbour in Boston so as to avoid being captured by the British..... More
Philadelphia: Stanley Institute, 1910. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete, octavo size, 930 pp. Although the first true automobile was invented ca. 1885 by Karl Friedrich Benz, the new-fangled contraption did not come into wide-spread usage until Henry Ford manufactured his 1908 Model T. The first edition of this work was published..... More
![Railroad] 1943 Car Builders' Cyclopedia Of American Practice, Sixteenth Edition. Roy V. Wright](/pictures/thumb/17050402_1.JPG?v=1566260444)
New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1943. Hardcover. Quarto size, 1324 pp. While the heydey of the railroads may now be waning, many of us fondly remember both the experience and the romance of travel by rail. Now largly a commercial enterprise, it continues to fascinate and its history studied. This..... More