New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 First edition. Foreword by David Flemming and Marc F. Wilson. Small oblong folio. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Checklist of the exhibition, timeline, bibliography, index. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large, well-designed, handsome book. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel around the world as it surveys the artistic response to steam locomotion. Features paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-century artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper..

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Bookseller: Argonaut Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8020
Title: The Railway Art in the Age of Steam
Author: Kennedy, Ian and Julian Treuherz
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place of Publication: New Haven
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: Trains Locomotives Railroads Railways Transportation History Art Artwork

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The Argonaut Book Shop was founded in 1941 in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco. The Argonaut was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers\' Association of America and has been a member in good standing ever since. The Shop is now located just three blocks from Union Square in downtown San Francisco and is open six days a week. Parking facilities include ample street space and a parking garage close by.

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