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C & O Power: Steam and Diesel Locomotives of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1900-1965
by Shuster, Philip; Huddleston, Eugene; Staufer, Alvin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Medina, OH: Alvin Staufer. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. This indepth study covers the different classes of C&O locomotives are covered in detail; all with multiple photos of the engines. Original publisher's black cloth pebbled covers with gilt spine and cover lettering. There is a little rippling to the foredge of pages, else this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket is complete, but has edgewear and the front flap is nearly separated at the fold-over, and the rear flaps is also tender. ; B&W Photos & Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 351 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21011
- Title
- C & O Power: Steam and Diesel Locomotives of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1900-1965
- Author
- Shuster, Philip; Huddleston, Eugene; Staufer, Alvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Alvin Staufer
- Place of Publication
- Medina, OH
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Railroads, C&O, Locomotives, Steam Locomotives
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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