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Railroading From the Head End
by S. Kip Farrington, Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943 Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York. 1943. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head, tail, and tips; small scuff on top of the rear board near the spine. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.50); wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; small closed tears to panel top edges. Black cloth boards and spine with bright red lettering on the spine and front board; embossed train on front board. Pictorial endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 296 pp 8vo. In this book, the author presents an intimate and inside look at American railroads. His story is told from the his personal point of view as he takes the reader to the actual cabs of the powerful engines that move the freights and streamliners. All phases of railroad activity are present here, from the duties of the solitary trackwalker to the ar-splitting din of the roundhouses. Written in railroad language this book is written so the reader can imagine he/she is riding in the locomotive cab and experiencing high-speed railroading on any of the modern streamliners like the Hiawatha, The Santa Fe Chief, or the Twentieth Century. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Laid-in is a business card from an ATSF employee from the 1940s.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015410
- Title
- Railroading From the Head End
- Author
- S. Kip Farrington, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- railroads, railroading, railroad occupations, railroad occupations, railroad jobs, freight trains, streamliners, passenger trains, dining cars, The Hiawatha, The Twentieth Century Limited, high speed railroading, steam locomotives,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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