Yucca Valley, CA: Manzanita Press, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 141 pp. 8vo. Bright yellow dust jacket with blue titling, minor sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Yellow cloth cover boards match both dust jacket color and titling. Photo-illustrated endpapers depict a current locomotive at time of publication at front and an early locomotive at rear. A tight, extremely clean copy. [Purcell 29].
Designed and published under Merle Armitage's imprint, this book documents Armitage's longtime love affair with this rail line as well as the history and development of the various "Chiefs" that carried passengers West. This copy is made quite special as it came from the personal library of bookman and librarian, Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) and has his bookplate affixed to..... More