[Rarebooks] FS: All Things Steam: Books, Periodicals, and Photographs on Steam Engines and Railways

[William Van Nest]

All Things Steam: Hugh Dibben’s Collection of Books, Periodicals, and Photographs on Steam Engines and Railways

     For his entire life Hugh Dibben was an aficionado of all things steam. As a child during the Depression, he loved watching his British-born father sketch trains and traction engines with charcoal on their white enamel kitchen table.  As an adolescent he volunteered to shovel coal for short rides on the CNR.  As a young man he lived in Yorkshire for several years and spent his weekends train watching. He became knowledgeable of the workings of locomotives and waited patiently for years, in some cases, to find the second edition of Chapelon or one of Ralph P. Johnson’s books. He came from a long line of steam lovers, including two uncles in England who built large replica traction engines which were featured in the London papers. His most precious possession was his collection of books about steam.

These books and the other items in the collection are now catalogued and ready to find a home with others fascinated by steam power, by long-retired steam locomotives, those mechanical dragons of the last century, by traction engines and by steam boats. There are six catalogues in the collection, comprising about three hundred titles, including British railways, Canadian railways, U. S. railroads, continental and other railways, a historical and technical miscellany of steam power, several good runs of periodicals, and a large selection of photographs.

To view the collection and for particulars of the sale please click on the link below:

http://www.trilliumbooks.ca/?page=shop/disp&pid=page_Hugh

Best wishes,

William Van Nest

Trillium Antiquarian Books, IOBA
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