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A Farewell to Steam: A thrilling and intimate portrait of rail and water-borne transport in the last minutes of the steam era by David Plowden - 1966

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A Farewell to Steam: A thrilling and intimate portrait of rail and water-borne transport in the last minutes of the steam era by David Plowden - 1966

A Farewell to Steam: A thrilling and intimate portrait of rail and water-borne transport in the last minutes of the steam era

by David Plowden

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1966. Hardcover. Good+. 1966 Stephen Greene Press hardcover. Many photos. A tribute to the last days of steam locomotives, railroad workers, steamships, paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi and much more. Dust jacket is worn and torn at edges with some small pieces missing. Now protected in mylar cover. Binding cracked (pages lay flat in center of book). Text clean and unmarked.
  • Bookseller LaPointe's Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good+
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Date Published 1966
  • Keywords steam locomotives, railroad, steamships, paddlewheel, boats, Mississippi, Great Lakes, United States history, Americana, photographs

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Greene Press, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Bonanza, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. A Very Good copy in a Good dustjacket. DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, toning, chipping to top & bottom of spine, a 1/2' tear to the top of the front cover, rubbing, and a small piece missing from the top of the back cover near the flap. Book has edgewear, bumped corners, and shelfwear to covers. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked.
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Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1966. (1966), 154pp, illus., black cloth, top corners bumped, slight shelfwear to cover, gift note to fep, price clipped dj, slight foxing to dj, some rubbing & edgewear to dj, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good -/Good +.
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New York: Bonanza Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Tear at Top Spine. .
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Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1966 Clean copy.Jacket rumpled at edges with some rips and tears.
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Greene Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x8x1. [Pictorial History of the Reciprocating Steam Engine] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some foxing.
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