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The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
de Taylor, Benjamin F
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light st
- Librería
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light stains to title page and small tear. Pages are otherwise clear.). Brown cloth boards with black design, gilt illustration of a train and lettering, bw frontispiece, 2 preliminary leaves, [9]-258 pages, illustrated title page and several bw illustrations throughout. Contents include: The world on wheels: The "wheel" instinct -- The Concord coach -- The raging canal -- The iron age -- The iron horse -- Plunging into the wilderness -- Vicious animals -- Habits of engines and train-men -- In the saddle -- Racing and plowing -- Snow bound -- Scalded to death -- All aboard! -- Early and late -- Dead heads -- Working "by the day" -- A slanderer and a weather maker -- Dreaming on the cars -- "Meet me by moonlight" -- The maker of cities -- A caboose ride -- Hatching out a woman -- A flank movement -- Light and shade -- Precious cargoes -- Baggage: My starry days -- "No. 104,163" -- Our old grandmother -- Out-door preaching -- The story of the bell -- "My eye!" -- The old road -- A bird heaven. Illustrated title page from the New York Examiner and Chronicle, 1873.
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- Librería
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 178999
- Título
- The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
- Autor
- Taylor, Benjamin F
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light st
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- S.C. Griggs & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- Chicago
- Fecha de publicación
- 1874
- Palabras clave
- Transportation ; Travel, Transportation ; ;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Transportation;
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