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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
A PASSENGER'S COPY (RAILROAD.) Steele, W. R.; editor. The Trans-Continental. Published Daily on the Pullman Hotel Express, Between Boston and San Francisco. Volume 1, numbers 1-12 [all published]. 4to, contemporary cloth gilt, small area of loss to the backstrip; first leaf detached, some issues a bit toned; ex-library, with a bookplate on the front pastedown and a blindstamp on the front free endpaper; lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper from Rev. R. C. Waterston, listed as a passenger on the trip from the Boston Board of Trade, gifting the book to the Boston Society of Natural History: "These papers composed, put into type & printed, while the train was in motion on its trans-continental trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific in May 1870 (probably the first paper ever printed under such circumstances)." Vp, 1870
"This extraordinary newspaper was written, put into type and published on board one of the first trains to make the trip across the continent and back. The press room was in the baggage car, and the compositor's room in the smoker . . . A remarkable and extremely interesting memorial of the overland railroad and its first press"--Eberstadt 107:364a; Howes S929.
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