The sequel to the American Art Stamp Album is the next book Railway Station Press will publish. The Kickstarter campaign began on Bastille Day, the 14th of July and sold 40% of the Limited Edition (of 100) books with all of the stamps included the first day. Look for the link to the campaign HERE.
The Basic Stamp Album is now available for purchase. It sells for $18 with $4 first class shipping in the US, $15 for Canada, and $22 for the rest of the world. The book contains the first three stamps and it is up to you to find the other 38 stamps to complete the album. These books are spiral bound so that you can lay the book flat while you work on your stamp album. Go to Books for Sale page for more details.
Wayne Youngblood has written an excellent review of this stamp album which appears on pages 63 and 64 of the March/April 2019 issue of Topical Time, the magazine of the American Topical Association.
Here are the seven books that Railway Station Press has published from July 2017 to now. They are available for sale at Books for Sale.
Founders Club memberships are still available for $100 which covers five years from 2017 to 2021. Go HERE.
The Photo History of the Black 95th General Service Regiment in World War II in two volumes is available for $20 postpaid in the United States and $10 additional for postage to foreign countries. Please make your check payable to “Railway Station Press” at P O Box 2327, Alexandria, VA 22301 or pay by PayPal at “stuartbradley@comcast.net”. Updated on February 21, 2018
I am now transcribing my father’s letters and preparing the first volume of his letters, “Letters From the Alcan Highway by Captain Stuart V. Bradley” using excerpts of 150 letters he wrote my mother during 1942 and 1943 in British Columbia while the 95th was building the Alcan (Alaska) Highway.
Update: An excellent history of the Black 93rd Engineer Regiment, which built the part of the Alcan Highway in the Yukon Territory, has been written by Christine & Dennis McClure called “We Fought the Road” just published in October. I am enjoying the book very much. It can be found HERE at their website.
Update as of November 22, 2017
Railway Station Press is pleased to announce that we have published a book by Nicole M. Hayes about the history of Wellington, Ohio told through well researched stories of twelve women. The book is 138 pages and is 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches.
The book is available for $18 with free Media Mail shipping. Checks can be made payable to “Railway Station Press”, P. O. Box 2327, Alexandria, VA 22301. See our “Items For Sale” page.
Membership is limited to 50 people (currently there are 36 members as of March 2019) and entitles you to the following benefits:
A First Edition of every book Railway Station Press publishes for the next five years, from 2017 through the end of 2021. This First Edition will be the First Printing, limited to 50 copies and will be signed and numbered, and only available to Club members. We expect to publish two or three books each year. So this is an incredible deal.
A Quarterly Packet sent in January, April, July, and October of each year which will contain: 1. “The Publisher’s Report” giving you an update on the progress of our various book projects, and inside information about Railway Station Press, 2. extras such as letterpress printed cards, and small books done by others, and 3. limited edition pamphlets that are only available to Club members.
A Membership Certificate which has been letterpress printed by Chris Manson, Maeve, and myself, at Crooked Crow Press in Rockville, Maryland on a Vandercook press. This 5 by 7 inch certificate will have your name and member number. See below.
The cost for the 5 year membership is $100, paid by check to “Railway Station Press” and sent to Stuart Bradley at 105 East Glendale Ave, Alexandria, VA 22301. All memberships will be retroactive to the beginning of 2017. Upon joining you will receive the Membership Certificate and the “First Edition, First Printing”, signed and numbered copy of The 1907 Autobiography of Henry Martin Bradley, our first book.
Railway Station Press is growing. We have incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we will seek to Trademark our press logo, and we have a list of ten book projects that we will be working on. We expect to publish books in the Fall and in the Winter. But we need working capital up front to make this happen. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help us do that!
The Founders Club membership card is 5 by 7 inches and letterpress printed.
Here is the cover of the Autobiography. It is now available for sale on the Items for Sale page. It is 5.5 by 8.5 inches and contains 114 pages. Besides the Autobiography, it contains the Genealogies of 1898 and the 1927 update. It also contains 21 pages of photographs, 14 of which are carte-de-visite photographs from a private album.
The Autobiography is now an InDesign file with a layout of 50 pages containing 24 drawings by Maeve Bradley. It is currently being proofread by Nancy Brooks. It will be a 5.5 by 8.5 inch book with an additional 41 pages of scanned genealogical material. I will experiment to see how some pages of photographs print when we order proof copies. So the final book will be about 92 to 100 pages, a perfect bound paperback, with a color cover and an ISBN number. It should be available in June and will be available for sale on this website. Here are drafts of the title page and first page of the Autobiography:
Update on May 28th, 2017: Proof copies of the 110 page book have been ordered!
