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Winter in New Orleans: Season 1908-1909 (Southern Pacific Steamships)
by Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific-Sunset Route
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VG-/G+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New Orleans, Louisiana: Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific-Sunset Route, 1908. Soft cover. VG-/G+. A guide issued by the Southern Pacific line of steamships to entice travelers to board one of their ships for "a hundred glorious hours at seas" as it journeyed from New York to New Orleans ("the Paris of America") during the 1908/09 season. The many attraction of New Orleans, especially as a winter travel destination, are described & illustrated with many duotone photos throughout the 60 pages of text (great photo of "Gay Maskers on Mardi Gras Day" 1909!). Two unpaginated pages in the rear list travel agents & how a map. Small 24mo (4.5" x 6") pamphlet in blue & gray decorative wrappers is in VG-/Good+ condition: stitched binding secure, generally clean with some foxing & light soil. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep, else unmarked (some erased pencil marks on about 6 pages).Both front & back cover are starting to tear at heel of spine, with paper loss of about 1/2" there & splitting up about 2" along spine-front cover interface. A tad of diagonal creasing to lower-outer back cover. Nicely protected in clear mylar collector bag free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022459
- Title
- Winter in New Orleans: Season 1908-1909 (Southern Pacific Steamships)
- Author
- Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific-Sunset Route
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/G+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific-Sunset Route
- Place of Publication
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- MARDI GRAS TOURISM TRAVEL STEAMSHIP NEW YORK PASSENGERS CRUISE CRUISING LOUISIANA TOURIST ATTRACTIONS SIGHT-SEEING VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS 19TH NINETEENTH CENTURY 1900S SHIPS
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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