Down At The Depot: American Railroad Stations from 1831 to 1920
by Alexander, Edwin P
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 320 pp, preface, introduction, The Country Stations; The Suburban Stations; Smaller- and Medium-Size City Stations; Stations and Terminals of the Large Cities; The Stations That Used to Be; index with over 400 b&w illustrations. Stated First Edition, 1970. Price clipped. Inked name on ffep. Only the slightest edge wear to dj. Lightly foxed top text block edge, else, Pritine, no wear. Clean and bright, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003458
- Title
- Down At The Depot: American Railroad Stations from 1831 to 1920
- Author
- Alexander, Edwin P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- TRANSPORTATION HISTORY AMERICAN RAILROAD STATIONS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOCIAL HISTORY 1831-1920
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRANSPORTATION;
- Size
- 4to
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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