New York: Mallard Press, 1991 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Folio. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 384 pp, Introduction, The Eastern Seaboard; The Trunk Lines; The Transcontinentals; The West Coast with more than100 full-color photographs and over forty historical images. Photographs by Dudley Witney. Mallard Press an Imprint of BDD Promotional Book Company, Inc. First American Edition, 1991. "This evocative travelogue combines with Dudley Witney's stunning photographs to capture the fascination, the sleek beauty, and the fierce strength of the American railroad. Traveling the historic routes from New York's Pennsylvania Station to the resorts of Miami and the Deep South, from Chicago's Union Station to the far Pacific coast -- and miles of lines in between -- they look back on a grand past and explain how it ha shaped things today." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with blind-stamped gilt lettering to spine..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003719
Title: An American Journey by Rail
Author: Jacobson, Timothy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN 10: 0792454928
ISBN 13: 9780792454922
Publisher: Mallard Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: TRANSPORTATION HISTORY AMERICAN RAILROADS TRAVELOGUE HISTORIC ROUTES & STATIONS
Bookseller catalogs: TRANSPORTATION;
Size: Folio

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