McGonigal, Robert S., Ed. (Ed King, Joe Welsh, Jack Elwood, Michael Blaszak, Neil Carlson, Kevin Holland, Mike Martin, Peter Hansen, Bill Kuebler, Greg Gormick.) Listings

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	1 McGonigal, Robert S., ed. (Ed King, Joe Welsh, Jack Elwood, Michael Blaszak, Neil Carlson, Kevin Holland, Mike Martin, Peter Hansen, Bill Kuebler, Greg Gormick.) FAST TRAINS IN THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RAILROADING. CLASSIC TRAINS SPECIAL EDITION NO. 7. Kalmbach, Waukesha, WI, 2008.  114 pp, 10 7/8" H, soft cover (magazine format). Front cover states "Display Until February 17, 2009". B&w and color photographs, reproductions. Contents: "Make Her Go Fast'; Chicago-Twin Cities Speed War; Super C: The World's Fastest Freight; Speed, Signals, and Safety; Hudsons: Passenger Speedsters; Banana Trains of Mid-America (Illinois Central et al); A Strong Closing Performance; Coast to Coast in Record Time (Union Pacific); Who Gets to Fargo First? (Northern Pacific); Pennsy's Fast Track to the Future; Speed Champ in Two Centuries; Pennsy's High-Flying Atlantics; GTW: Canada's Fast Connection; In Steam the Builders Trusted; Fast Berkshires and E units; Speed Demons of the North; The Magic of 'Fast Freight'; Master of Fast: Hale on SP; Speedways to the Sunshine; Saving Time by Not Stopping. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - a few tiny dints. Very Good+  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 King, Greg. THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR: THE UNCOMMON LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON. Citadel / Kensington, New York, 2003.  556 pp, 9" H, soft cover. ISBN 0806524642 "It was the love story of the century - the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry ' the woman I love,' Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled. Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world . Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted. Using previously untapped sources, (the author) presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From he r birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characte rs is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of (b&w) photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Ex ter ior - three light creases down a concave spine. Very Good  Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart