The Railroads of America
by Armitage, Merle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NP: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce-Little, Brown, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. g. Large 8vo. 320 pp. Red spine over blue buckram with dj. Illustrated profusely throughout, mostly with b&w photographs, some b&w drawings (over 400 photogrpahs). Dj chipped at edges, and spine is mostly gone. The part of the spine listing the book's title is still present, but faded. In good condition with fair dj.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9258
- Title
- The Railroads of America
- Author
- Armitage, Merle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan, & Pearce-Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- NP
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- North America, United States, Railways, History and Operations, Canadian Pacific Railway, Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific Company, Baltimore and Ohio, Pullman, Long Island Railroad, Wabash Railroad, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railwa
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....