Highball: A Pageant of Trains
by BEEBE, Lucius
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bonanza Books, 1945. Hardcover. 4to. Salmon and black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 223pp, (1p). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with small chip at head and tail of spine. Tight, quite nice reprint edition of this broad and well-illustrated survey. Interestingly, tipped to front flyleaf is a 4" X 7" "Illinois Central Railroad Register Ticket" from 1961, while front pastedown, rear pastedown and rear flyleaf each bear a 3½" X 2¼" heavy stock membership pass for Arnold Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar) for Rutger University Library's "American History Workshop" (2nd Annual, 3rd Annual and 4th Annual).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43293
- Title
- Highball: A Pageant of Trains
- Author
- BEEBE, Lucius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Railroad;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...