[Railroads] : [Printing] : St. Louis, Missouri: Con. P. Curran Printing Co., 1914-1915. 24 issues bound as two volumes. Each 11" x 8 1/2." Uniform leather over flexible card wraps with gilt title lettering to fronts. Some light dry rot about edges of outer leather. Spine leather worn away with a crude cloth rebacking. Sound. Contents neat, clean. About very good.

A pair of annual volumes composing the first two years of OUR MONTHLY MESSAGE: The Official Organ of the Railroad Printing Buyer, a monthly sales publication issued by the Con. P. Curran Co., a once-prolific, St. Louis-based printer of railroad business forms and stationary founded in about 1893 and headquartered out of a long-demolished, six-story building at the corner of Eighth and Walnut. 

A message from the editor prefacing February 1914 and sharing the reception of its inaugural issue of the month previous, details the publications' intention and reach:

"Letters of congratulation and inquiries concerning intricate railroad forms, suggestions, and many other manifestations of interest have been pouring in with such volume, that we have proven to ourselves without the slightest possibility of aa doubt, that our effort to advise and help the railroad purchaser of pirnting has met with overwhelming success. 

One man who is a large buyer of stationery for a big trunk line says, "You are on a fair road to solve aa great many of the problems that confront the management of the smaller lines, by giving them the opportunity of knowing what large roads use in the handling of their business and at the same time putting these more expensive books and blanks at their disposal for a price they could not hoope too have, by giving them the larage road's price in small quantities. This should indeed be a wonderful assistance to not only the small lines but too every purchaser of railroad printing whoo is fortunate enough to be oon the mailing list of OUR MONTHLY MESSAGE." 

Contents are generously illustrated, including full-color covers on individual issues, and typically feature in-depth articles on railroad printing needs and innovations by industry sales professionals and stationers amid advertisements for Curran products. Statements within copyright information to individual issues note a circulation of 5,200 (first recorded in April 1914) to 6,000 (by December, 1915). Surviving issues appear scarce with WorldCat noting only two confirmed holding institutions: Missouri History and the University of Denver.