Search Results: Authors starting with J from White Pine Books

"An absorbing tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails Across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge." (from the back cover). Condition notes: minor edge wear, outer page block has some spots / discoloration, a few interior page smudges, cover curl and the plastic coating over the stiff wraps has numerous "bubbles" on the spine (see photos).

Lulu Press, Inc., 7-12. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. A wonderful walk through Georgia and its many antebellum churches of various Protestant denominations - Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran . . . and even a smattering of Catholic churches. Photographs are accompanied by church histories. Some light rubbing of the cover. Some blue smudges/marks on the cover which may have occurred in the printing process. A couple of pressure marks on the back. Light edgewear and a bumped corner. Signed by the author.