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Quarter of a Century with the Traveling Public and What it Taught Me, by Edwin Kachel. Price one dollar
de [Railroad food service]; Kachel, Edwin
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[Seattle: Progressive Printing Co.], 1937. Octavo (20 x14.5 cm.), [10], 113 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of the author. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A memoir of a railroad steward, having served in dining-car service on the Portland to Seattle run since 1911. In part a guide to 'Humanized Hospitality' on the railroads, and in part profiles of some of the celebrities the author served. Green-titled wrappers, backed in brown cloth; small stain to front panel, otherwise near fine. Inscribed at length in green ink by the author on the free front endpaper, and dated 1953. [OCLC locates nine copies].
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- Título
- Quarter of a Century with the Traveling Public and What it Taught Me, by Edwin Kachel. Price one dollar
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- [Railroad food service]; Kachel, Edwin
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- 1
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- Progressive Printing Co.]
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- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
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- railroad, dining-car, service, trains, train food, signed, inscribed, ESA22
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Alfred, Maine
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- Wrappers
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- Octavo
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