Chronological
Bibliography of Books by Lucius Beebe
Compiled by Tony Reevy
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One
of Beebe's favorite railroads was the Virginia &
Truckee between Reno, Carson City, and Virginia City,
Nev. This photo of hogger "High Water" Bill
Fryk is a classic, published in When Beauty Rode
the Rails (1962), but taken before the V&T's
abandonment in 1950. (California State
Railroad Museum - Neg. No. BC 3413)
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Fallen Stars, Boston: The Cornhill Publishing
Company, 1921.
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Corydon and Other Poems, Boston: B. J. Brimmer
Company, 1924.
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Francois Villon: Certain Aspects, Cambridge,
Massachusetts: privately printed, 1925.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson and the Arthurian Legend,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, privately printed, 1927.
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Aspects of the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: privately printed, 1928.
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A
Bibliography of the Works of Edwin Arlington Robinson
(with R. J. Bulkley), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dunster
House Bookshop, 1931.
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Boston and the Boston Legend, New York: D.
Appleton-Century Company, 1935.
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High Iron: A Book of Trains, New York: D. Appleton-Century
Company, 1938.
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Highliners: A Railroad Album, New York: D.
Appleton-Century Company, 1940.
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Trains in Transition, New York: D. Appleton-Century
Company, 1941.
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Snoot if You Must, New York: D. Appleton-Century
Company, 1943.
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Highball: A Pageant of Trains, New York: D.
Appleton-Century Company, 1945.
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The Stork Club Bar Book, New York: Rinehart
and Company, 1946.
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Mixed Train Daily: A Book of Short Line Railroads
(with photographs by Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), New York:
E. P. Dutton Company, 1947.
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Dreadful California, by Hinton Rowan Helper,
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (edited by Lucius Beebe
and Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), 1948.
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U.S. West: The Saga of Wells Fargo (with Charles
M. Clegg, Jr.), New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949.
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Virginia and Truckee: A Story of Virginia City and
Comstock Times (with Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), Oakland,
California: G. H. Hardy, 1949.
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Legends of the Comstock Lode (with Charles
M. Clegg, Jr.), Oakland, California: G. H, Hardy, 1950.
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Cable Car Carnival (with Charles M. Clegg,
Jr.), Oakland, California: G. H. Hardy, 1951.
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Hear the Train Blow: A Pictorial Epic of America
in the Railroad Age (with Charles M. Clegg, Jr.),
New York: E. P. Dutton Company, 1952.
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Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial
Enterprise and Virginia City News, Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press, 1954.
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The American West: The Pictorial Epic of a Continent
(with Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), New York: E. P. Dutton
Company, 1955.
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Steamcars to the Comstock: The Virginia and Truckee
Railroad, The Carson and Colorado Railroad (with
Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North
Books, 1957.
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The Age of Steam: A Classic Album of American Railroading
(with Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), New York: Rinehart
and Company, 1957.
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Narrow-Gauge in the Rockies (with Charles M.
Clegg, Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books,
1958.
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Mansions on Rails: The Folklore of the Private Railway
Car, Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books,
1959.
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San Francisco’s Golden Era: A Picture Story
of San Francisco Before the Fire (with Charles
M. Clegg, Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books,
1960.
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Mr. Pullman’s Elegant Palace Car: The Railway
Carriage that Established a New Dimension of Luxury
and Entered the National Lexicon as a Symbol of Splendor,
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1961.
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Rio Grande: Mainline of the Rockies (with Charles
M. Clegg, Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books,
1962.
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Twentieth Century: The Greatest Train in the World,
Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books, 1962.
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When Beauty Rode the Rails: An Album of Railroad
Yesterdays (with Charles M. Clegg, Jr.), Garden
City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1962.
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The Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroads
(with photographs by Richard Steinheimer), Berkeley,
California: Howell-North Books, 1963.
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The Overland Limited, Berkeley, California:
Howell-North Books, 1963.
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Great Railroad Photographs, U.S.A. (with Charles
M. Clegg, Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books,
1964.
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Two Trains to Remember: The New England Limited,
The Air Line Limited, Virginia City, Nevada: privately
printed, 1965.
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The Trains We Rode (with Charles M. Clegg,
Jr.), Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books, Vol.
1, 1965, Vol. 2, 1966.
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The Big Spenders, Garden City, New York: Doubleday
and Company, 1966.
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The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq. (edited
by Gordon Pates), San Francisco: Chronicle Publishing
Company, 1966.
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The Lucius Beebe Reader (edited by Charles
Clegg and Duncan Emrich), Garden City, New York: Doubleday
and Company, 1967.
Beebe collaborated with Charles Townsend Copeland
on The Copeland Reader (1926) and also wrote
three promotional monographs about hotels. They covered
the Ritz of New York (1936), the Savoy of London (1964),
and the Palace of San Francisco (date unknown).
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