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Locomotive Engineering: Adopted By the Southern Schools of Railway Science as a Standard Text Book for Railway Scholarships: General Course: Vol. IV
by Southern Schools of Railway Science
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Southern Schools of Railway Science, 1909. Volume IV only; Binding Shaken, otherwise very clean, floral decorative end papers; B&W photos, diagrams, folded diagrams, mathematic formulas and tables; Blue cloth binding, bumped and worn at the spine extremities and board corners and edges; Spine is surface discolored in spots and the boards are rubbed and character-soiled; Rear endpapers separated at the gutter, hinge intact; 343p.. First Edition Revised (stated). Blue Cloth. Good+. Illus. by B&W Photographs/Folded Diagrams/Diagrams/Mathematics. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB15895
- Title
- Locomotive Engineering: Adopted By the Southern Schools of Railway Science as a Standard Text Book for Railway Scholarships: General Course: Vol. IV
- Author
- Southern Schools of Railway Science
- Illustrator
- B&W Photographs/Folded Diagrams/Diagrams/Mathematics
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition Revised (stated)
- Publisher
- Southern Schools of Railway Science
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1909
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Railway Science, Locomotive Engineering, Locomotive Engineering Text Book, Locomotive Engineering Education, Education
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroads; Education;
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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