RAND MCNALLY AND COMPANY'S NEW GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC COAST. SANTA FE ROUTE. CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, AND KANSAS
by STEELE, JAMES W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company., 1890. Spine extremities slightly frayed. Gilt lettering on cover and spine still bright. Binding tight. End papers and preliminary pages have advertisements for various stops along the way. Illustrated throughout with maps and drawings, some full-page, all in black and white. An excellent tour guide starting in Kansas City and ending in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, or San Francisco) aboard the ATSF railroad line. Information on Lawrence, Topeka in Kansas. Information about climate, general sights, historical notes, considerable amount of American Indian tribes along the way. Appendix with the entire itinerary and a listing of Spanish geographical names (Pronunciation and meaning). 212pp.. New Edition.. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011598
- Title
- RAND MCNALLY AND COMPANY'S NEW GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC COAST. SANTA FE ROUTE. CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, AND KANSAS
- Author
- STEELE, JAMES W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally and Company.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Travel, Santa Fe Railroad, California, Kansas
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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