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Paving Tobacco Road: A Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation
by Turner, Walter R
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0865263051
- ISBN 13
- 9780865263055
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Spencer, North Carolina: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2003. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 181 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in orange and grey wrappers. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "Best Regards, Walter R. Turner." Illustrated throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046696
- Title
- Paving Tobacco Road: A Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation
- Author
- Turner, Walter R
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0865263051
- ISBN 13
- 9780865263055
- Publisher
- North Carolina Office of Archives and History
- Place of Publication
- Spencer, North Carolina
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- 2003; Walter R. Turner; Paving; Tobacco Road; North Carolina Department of Transportation; Roads; History; Interstate System; Blue Ridge Parkway; Automotive; Automobiles; Engineering.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Engineering; Trains and Automobiles;
- X weight
- 1.5 lb
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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