Description:
Association of American Railroads. 2nd edition,1945. Fair soft cover. squarish 12mo,soft covers,68pp,illus. edgewear,tears,rubbing,scrapes,foot front corner clipped,taped along spine,corners worn,cover. edges tanned,corners worn,light tanning,clean,tight,text. taped tear foredge front end page. owner info inside front cover. history.
Whopper Trains Book by Not Credited - No date
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Whopper Trains Book
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- Used
- good
- Hardcover
The Children's Press, London and Glasgow, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Not Credited. not paginated (66 pages). Coloured illustrated frontispiece -- illustrator not credited. Numerous black-and-white drawings and illustrations throughout the book (some part page some full-page) and again that illustrator/s not credited. 1/4 dark pink coloured backstrip. 3/4 colour illustrated covers with red titles. A small book put out for boys dealing with trains. It is a mixture of short stories (with lots of derring-do and hero boys) and facts about different styles of trains and signals etc. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges and rubbing to the book panels. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and noticeable browning to the internal text. Gift inscription to the top edge of the free front end paper. There are two small tears to the lower edge of the title page and a few pages throughout the text. Handling marks in staining is also present to the internal text. No publication data is readily available but given the illustrations of the trains and people probably 1950s. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Not Credited. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Transport -- Railways; Children's Annual; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0108612. .
- Bookseller Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Illustrator Not Credited
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Children's Press
- Place of Publication London and Glasgow
- Date Published No date
- Keywords BZDB2 NOISBN Short Stories -- Trains -- Adolescents -- 1950s Children; Transport -- Railways; Children's Annual; fiction -- adolescent; Whopper Trains Book