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Trolley Car Treasury: A Century of American Streetcars: Cable Cars, Interurbans & Trolleys
de Frank Rowsome
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien/Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 11.21EUR 7.84
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956 McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1956. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; wear through paper at lower tips; broken paper on top front tip; dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Good; wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; wear to flap folds; rubbing to panels; closed tear at bottom of front panel. Yellow and red paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright yellow lettering on the spine. 200 pp 4to. This book is a tribute to the time of the trolley and the complete story, in 300 photographs and 60,000 words, of a century of American streetcars. This book presents a wealth of trolley tales, songs, photographs, and cartoons that recapture the hiss, clang, and screech of the trolley. Threatened by the gasoline age, the desire of transportation independence by the public, and the automobile the days of the trolley were numbered and were phased out in the 1950s in most cities. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No international shipping.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014521
- Título
- Trolley Car Treasury: A Century of American Streetcars: Cable Cars, Interurbans & Trolleys
- Autor
- Frank Rowsome
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
- Tamaño
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- trolley cars, streetcars, American Trolley, interurbans, city streetcar, mass transportation, cable cars, interurbans,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Transportation; Americana;
Términos de venta
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Sobre el vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre 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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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
