History of the Express Business; Including the Origin of the Railway System in America.
Stimson, A. L.
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1881.
Price:
$950.00
About the item
Fourth and best edition. Eleven plates. 388pp. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, worn at board edges and top and tail of spine. Reese, Best of the West 230 (note); Sabin 91827.
Item #378766
A rare volume containing much material concerning western express companies, including Wells Fargo, American Express, the Pony Express, and such other major companies, describing the rise of the express business, the railroads in operation before the boom in express companies, and an account of the pioneering express firm of William F. Harnden in New York and Boston.
First published in 1858, each of the successive editions were greatly expanded, with Howes calling the present 1881 fourth edition as the "best." Two issues of this edition were published, with varying pagination.
