Bullets Bart by Middleton William (18 results)

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Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 8 (weekend SALE item)* 176 pp, hardcover, fine in an edge worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 176 pages, with illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Couple short tears to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to. Bulletin 127 . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. P30.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 176pp ISBN 0915348274 Issued in commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Central Electric Railfans' Association 1938-1988. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Central Electric Railfan's Association January 1989 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket condition: Good. Jacket rubbed with several edge tears. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. While a series of events were held over the 1988 Memorial Day weekend to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Central Electric Railfans' Association a more lasting commemorative seemed appropriate. The result is this book, From Bullets to BART, a fifty year history of the electric railway industry. A period in which we have seen the decline, nadir and rebirth of the industry. In both 1987 and 1988 over $1 Billion of railroad passenger rolling stock was delivered in the United States. The majority of that rolling stock with either electrically powered self-propelled cars or rolling stock pulled by electric locomotives. Electrifications were extended and significant improvements made in existing infrastructures. All of this investment is being made in railroads, an industry that many people think is dying. Those of us who study the industry have a different view. CERA is extremely fortunate to be able to present a work by William D. Middleton. Bill is clearly the "dean" of the authors on electric traction. His published works include 400 articles for magazines and newspapers around the world and twelve books on railroads and electric traction. This is his first work for CERA and it is significant because in commemoration of our fiftieth anniversary Bill donated his work. Bill willingly accepted the invitation to document the history of this fifty year period. In the CERA half century we've seen the street railway go from Depression decline to the P.C.C. revolution, to decline again, and then to the streetcar's modern light rail renaissance. Despite Electroliners, C.A.&E. 450's, or Illinois Terminal streamliners we saw the interurbans all but vanish. But two survivors endured the South Shore and SEPTA's P&W Norristown line with its Bullets. Indeed, as the half century neared its end there were new light rail projects under construction or planned that were putting electric traction back in some of the interurban corridors of old. For main line electrification it was mostly a half century of decline, but it was a time, too, for the glory years of Pennsy GGl's; for Metroliners and now A.S.E.A. AEMV's at 120 m.p.h. on a superbly modernized Northeast Corridor. Only for North American rapid transit was it a half century of unabashed growth. The "first generation" rapid transit systems all grew and modernized. New systems opened or began construction in a dozen conurbations utilizing computers, electronics, and new materials technologies to provide a highly sophisticated, and heavily automated "new generation" of rapid transit systems. Beginning in the uncertainty of a fading Depression, the first CERA half century ends at a time of extraordinary promise for the future of electric traction. Surely CERA's second fifty years will prove to be every bit as eventful as the first fifty.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Green leatherette, lettered in gold foil, oblong format. Essentially as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket mildly rubbed at spine extremities, with short closed tear and associated creasing along top rear edge, now in mylar. 176 pp., fully illus. w/ b&w photographs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 176 pages. Bulletin 127. Features text by William D. Middleton. Includes numerous black and white images. A near fine copy with some minor wear and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear and some edge tears.

Central Electric Railfans' Assoc (Chicago 1989). Illus, oblong 8.5x11", boards, 176pp, v.g. in torn dw. FIRST EDITION. Bulletin 127.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, first printing. Bulletin 127. A fifty year history of the electric railway industry. 176 pages with photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket with short tear to front panel.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Chicago, IL: Central Electric Railfans' Association. VG/G. 1989. . Hardcover w/DJ. Oblong 8vo., 176 pp., DJ frayed, shelfwear .

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Oblong folio. Near fine in original cloth with ownership signature on rear of front free endpaper. In original dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 176 pages. 1.0Kg. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering, FINE in a Near FINE d/w with repaired tears to top and toe of spine, in clear removable wrap. illustrated with 200 b/w photographs, published to commorate the 50th anniverary of the CERA, this book covers from the debut of the high-speed Brill ''Bullet'' cars in suburban Philadelphia in the 1930's to the beginning of the automated Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in California in the 1970's. Owing to the weight, extra shipping will be required. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 176 pps.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good-. Green boards w/ gilded titling on spine. DJ is unclipped, B/w photo on EPS. Includes many b/w photos. DJ is slightly edgeworn. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.