The Trains We Rode: Volume II -- Northern Pacific-Wabash
by BEEBE. Lucius, and CLEGG, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1966. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (5pp), pp. 466-976. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear; bookplate on front flyleaf of jet and automotive engineer and patent holder Robert H. Jespersen. A tight and handsome first edition of the second volume (only) of this pair (the first volume, not present here, covers the Alton and New York Central). A lovely, exceptionally well-illustrated tome!
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45960
- Title
- The Trains We Rode: Volume II -- Northern Pacific-Wabash
- Author
- BEEBE. Lucius, and CLEGG, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Howell-North Books
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Railroad;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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