Railway Problems
by Ripley, William Z., Editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1907 Green cloth; gilt title and spine. Part of the Selections and Documents in Economics Series of texts by this publisher, edited by Ripley. Collection of cases in railway economics of the period, stripped of legal material, reprinted from books and technical journals. With black-and-white map line drawings, charts, and tables. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities; spine darkened (light varnish coating by library); lower rear corner bumped. Library marks: spine label; inkstamps to front and rear endpapers, upper page block, lower margin of final page; small remnants of sticker removal rear endpaper; shadow of former pocket strip rear endpapers. Two 2" closed tears, one to lower margin of map adjoining page 319, the other to upper margin of rear endpaper. Clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11976
- Title
- Railway Problems
- Author
- Ripley, William Z., Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ex-Library First Edition
- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1907
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