Locomotives in Profile, Volume One (1).
by Reed, Brian (General Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: binding in the style uniform to the Aircraft and Classic Cars in Profile series; gray cloth with dark blue at
- ISBN 10
- 0853830509
- ISBN 13
- 9780853830504
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Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1971.. 1st American Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: binding in the style uniform to the Aircraft and Classic Cars in Profile series; gray cloth with dark blue at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 10.25 inches tall by 7.5 inches wide . Description: The publisher's blurb reads: ''Here are 12 superb double page color plates of the utmost technical accuracy and fine detail, upwards of 400 illustrations, and over 120.000 words, with historical information based on original research. This first volume of Locomotives in Profile is something new in locomotive literature. Never before have exhaustive studies of a dozen of the most notable steam locomotive classes from British and American practice been concentrated within one binding. Ranging from the Rocket of 1829, through the American 4-4-0, the New York Central Hudsons, the Gresley A1 and A3 Pacifics, the Royal Scots, the Mother Hubbards, and other distinguished types from each side of the Atlantic, down to the British Railways Britannica Pacifics of 1951.'' With illustrations by David Warner, Peter Warner, and Arthur Wolstenholme.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067367
- Title
- Locomotives in Profile, Volume One (1).
- Author
- Reed, Brian (General Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: binding in the style uniform to the Aircraft and Classic Cars in Profile series; gray cloth with dark blue at
- Edition
- 1st American Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0853830509
- ISBN 13
- 9780853830504
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York:
- Date Published
- 1971.
- Pages
- 292 pages.
- Size
- 10.25 inches tall by 7.5 inches
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