Redwoods Iron Horses and the Pacific
Spencer Crump
Imitation Leather
(Trans-Anglo Books, March 15, 1963)
Redwood Edition (400 hundred copies printed; this is copy number 74), First Edition, First Printing, October 1963, SIGNED by the author on the special edition page, an apparently unread, unmarked, hardly opened slightly oversized hardcover, without a dust jacket, as published (?-not sure) with the only deficit being the front cover spine loosening but still quite intact. Published by Trans-Anglo Books, Los Angeles 53. The Story of the California Western "SKUNK" Railroad. By Spencer Crump, previously author of Ride the Big Red Cars: How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California. Also included are three pieces of paper ephemera relating to the subject of the book: 1) a yellowing UPI news teletype stating: San Francisco, Dec. 3 (UPI)-- A travel agent asserted yesterday at California Public Utilities Commission hearings that Northwestern Pacific Railroad's tri-weekly passenger service between Willits and Eureka could be made a tourist attraction; 2) an undated news story headlined: Mendocino Trains Collide; 31 Injured / Skunk Tourist Cars Pile Up On Blind Curve; and 3) another news story dated Sept. 28, 1964: 16 Train Riders Still In Hospital.