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From Horsecars to Streamliners: An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company
by Alan R. Lind
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£19.87£13.91
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About This Item
Forest Park, IL: Transport History Press, 1978 Transport History Press, Forest Park, IL. 1978. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small bump to fore edge of front board; small splash stain on the textblock top edge. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($22.50); chipping and small closed tears at head; light wear to tips; compression indentation on front panel near fore edge. Green buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. 400 pp 4to. For nine decades, the St. Louis Car Company produced horsecars, cable cars, primitive electric streetcars, interurban cars, subway cars, trolley buses, and main line passenger and freight cars. As needed, the company also built gasoline and electrically powered buses, aircraft, automobiles, boats, and military vehicles in WWII. The first part of this book sets the rapid growth and long decline of the company in its social and economic context. The second part treats the company's products in great technical detail with a comprehensive list of vehicles built, with notes on subsequent sales, re-numberings, re-buildings, and conversions. Over 400 photographs. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No International Sales.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014520
- Title
- From Horsecars to Streamliners: An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company
- Author
- Alan R. Lind
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Transport History Press
- Place of Publication
- Forest Park, IL
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- St. Louis Car Company, transportation, intracity transportation, horsecars, cable cars, primitive electric streetcars, interurban cars, subway cars, trolley buses, and main line passenger and freight cars, gasoline and electrically powered buses, aircraf
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation; Automobiles;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
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- Brodart
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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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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